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Ken Dowden

Author of The Uses of Greek Mythology

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Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics, and Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, at the University of Birmingham.

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Works by Ken Dowden

The Uses of Greek Mythology (1992) 114 copies

European Paganism (1999) 50 copies, 2 reviews

Religion and the Romans (Classical World Series) (1998) 31 copies

Zeus (2006) 29 copies

A Companion to Greek Mythology (2011) — Editor — 29 copies

Death and the Maiden: Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology (1989) 6 copies

Associated Works

Collected Ancient Greek Novels (0001) — Translator — 318 copies, 6 reviews

The Cambridge Companion to Homer (2004) — Contributor — 150 copies, 1 review

A Companion to Greek Religion (2007) — Contributor — 81 copies

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric (2006) — Contributor — 43 copies

Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (1995) — Contributor — 40 copies

The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies

The Search for the Ancient Novel (1993) — Contributor — 20 copies

Lectiones Scrupulosae: Essays on the Text and Interpretation of Apuleius' Metamorphoses in Honour of Maaike Zimmerman (Ancient Narrative Supplementum) (2006) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (Oxford Handbooks) (2022) — Contributor — 7 copies

A Companion to the Prologue to Apuleius' Metamorphoses (2001) — Contributor — 7 copies

Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass: Volume III: The Isis Book. a Collection of Original Papers (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies

Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) (2010) — Contributor — 6 copies

Readers and writers in the ancient novel (2009) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Greek and the Roman novel : parallel readings (2007) — Contributor — 3 copies

Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece (Bucknell Review) (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies

Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica (2022) — Contributor — 2 copies

Host or Parasite?: Mythographers and Their Contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (Trends in Classics - Supplementary… (2019) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dynamics of Ancient Prose: Biographic, Novelistic, Apologetic (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 62) (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy

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European Paganism : the Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Ken Dowden

account of pagan practice as known from texts and sites

Jun 24, 20211 other review

CaroSynke 16 reviews

European Paganism, The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Ken Dowden

In het voorwoord geeft prof. Dowden al aan dat hij zich in dit boek beperkt tot de literaire bronnen. En daar gaat het al mis, omdat de heidense literaire bronnen schaars zijn en zeer gekleurd. Bijv. bibliotheken zijn er vol geschreven over de waarde van de Edda als bron voor daadwerkelijk historisch heidendom. Het is duidelijk dat prof. Dowden zich niet al te veel gelegen laat aan de discussies die zich op dat front afspelen. Zijn bronnen voor de Germaans heidense gebruiken zijn niet show more slecht, maar daarmee wel beperkt.

Toch geeft het boek een leuke inkijk in andere heidense bronnen, zoals de Griekse en Romeinse en enkele Baltische en Slavische heidense gebruiken. Ook zijn bespreking over wat we nu kunnen verstaan onder 'bron', 'berg' en 'heilig bos' vond ik informatief. Helaas kan Dowden de ondertitel van zijn boek niet waarmaken. show less

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