Mythology and Rituals around the Stone: Applying Louis Gernet’s "Polyvalence des images" to "Greek Death"

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Bebelos: spazio sacro, gradazioni di sacralità e gerarchie di partecipazione

Per accostarsi alle modalità con cui i Greci di età arcaica e classica pensavano il sacro e il rapporto tra uomini e dei, è utile l’analisi dei contesti nei quali ricorre l’aggettivo bebelos. Questa nozione, infatti, impossibile da ricondurre in modo assoluto al nostro concetto moderno di “profano”, entra in rapporto con termini come hieros, hosios, hagnos e chiarisce l’importanza di processi fondamentali quali la creazione dello spazio sacro, il costituirsi della potenza divina, la costruzione di gerarchie di partecipazione al sacro.An analysis of contexts in which the word bebelos occurs is very useful in order to approach the way Greeks of archaic and classical ages used to consider the sacred as well as the relationship between men and gods. This idea is different from the modern notion of “profane” and it has relationships with words like hieros, hosios, hagnos. Moreover, this idea is crucial in order to understand the creation of sacred space, the shaping of divine power and the construction of the sacred

Bebelos: spazio sacro, gradazioni di sacralità e gerarchie di partecipazione

An analysis of contexts in which the word bebelos occurs is very useful in order to approach the way Greeks of archaic and classical ages used to consider the sacred as well as the relationship between men and gods. This idea is different from the modern notion of “profane” and it has relationships with words like hieros, hosios, hagnos. Moreover, this idea is crucial in order to understand the creation of sacred space, the shaping of divine power and the construction of the sacred