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Deification
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[German version] I. Ancient Orient In the Ancient Orient the deification of rulers always occurred in the context of the legitimization and exercise of rulership. Deified rulers and proper gods were always differentiated on principle. Renger, Johannes (Berlin) [German version] A. Mesopotamia References to the deification of living rulers are geographically restricted to Babylonia and temporally to the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC: a) individual rulers claimed divine descent for themselves as a means of legitimizing their rule…
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Brill’s New Pauly
Personification
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I. Terminology [German version] A. Personification in Rhetoric and Poetry The early modern term
personificatio expresses the Hellenistic, rhetorical concept of προσωποποιία/
prosōpopoiía , which refers to the representation of fictive persons, concrete (inanimate) items or abstract concepts as speakers and actors (Latin,
conformatio: Rhet. Her. 4,66;
personarum ficta inductio: Cic. De or. 3,205;
prosopopoeia: Quint. Inst. 9,29-37). As a fictional personalisation, primarily of concepts,
prosōpopoiía was considered by Greek literary theory to be an element of a…
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Brill’s New Pauly