Greek Gods and Cognitive Sciences

About Jennifer Larson’s Understanding Greek Religion

Authors

  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Collège de France, Paris; Université de Liège

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.36262

Keywords:

cognitive science of religion, Greek history

Abstract

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Author Biography

  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Collège de France, Paris; Université de Liège

    Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge is Professor at the Collège de France (Paris) and at the University of Liège (Belgium). Her fields of research are the ancient Greek religion, ancient polytheism, and the historiography of the history of religions. Among many publications, she is the author of books on the goddess Aphrodite (1994), on the traveler Pausanias (2008), and on the goddess Hera (with G. Pironti, L'Héra de Zeus, ennemie intime, épouse définitive, 2016). She is the director the journal Kernos (https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/) and of the project Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, freely available on the web (http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be).

References

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Pirenne-Delforge, V. 2009. “Under Which Conditions Did the Greek ‘Believe’ in their Myths? The Religious Criteria of Adherence”. In Antike Mythen. Medien, Transformationen, Konstruktionen. Festschriften für Fritz Graf, ed. U. Dill and C. Walde, 38–54. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.

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Veyne, P. 1988. Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination, trans. P. Wissing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally published in 1983 as Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes? Essai sur l’imagination constituante. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.

Published

2018-12-04

Issue

Section

Book Review Symposium: Jennifer Larson's 'Understanding Greek Religion' (2016)

How to Cite

Pirenne-Delforge, V. (2018). Greek Gods and Cognitive Sciences: About Jennifer Larson’s Understanding Greek Religion. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 4(1), 47-52. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.36262