Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds (Ancient Philosophy & Religion)

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Introduction
Part 1: Religion, Kingship and Politics
Chapter 1. The Mesopotamian King between Gods and Men in the First Millennium BCE
Chapter 2. The Intersection of Gods and Kings in Achaemenid Iran
Chapter 3. Confronting and Uniting with Divinity in Ancient Egypt
Chapter 4. Constantine: God-Man or Man of God?
Part 2: Religion, Sex and Mythology
Chapter 5. Human-Divine Interactions in Homer, Hittite and Other Near Eastern Literary Traditions
Chapter 6. Teῶν Fίλtρa: Sexual Union between Gods and Mortals
Part 3: Religion, Philosophy and Ritual
Chapter 7. Genos Olbion, Genos Ouranion: Divine Ancestry in the Orphic Gold Tablets
Chapter 8. Union with the Divine in Greece and India: Mysteries and Monetisation
Chapter 9. Philosophy and the Daimonic in Plato
Chapter 10. Confusion (Ekplêxis) and Sympathy (Sympatheia): The Neoplatonist Proclus on the Aesthetics of Epiphany and Theurgic Union
Chapter 11. Proclus\' Theurgic Union, Teουργικὴ Ἕνωsις, and the Concept of Fire
Chapter 12. Determinism and Divine Intervention: Divine Punishment in Stoic Theology
Chapter 13. Divine Unions in Byzantine Christianity: The Penetration of Fire into Iron as a Methaphor of Theôsis
Index of Ancient Sources/References
Index of Subjects