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Les Moires entre la naissance et la mort : de la représentation au culte
Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane; Pironti, Gabriella
2011In Études de Lettres, (3-4), p. 93-113
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Keywords :
Moirai; Greek Religion; birth
Abstract :
[en] In ancient Greece, Moirai are divine powers related to the ‘share’ that everyone receives and mythic tales where they appear mainly associate to birth and death. As traditional spinners and weavers, such goddesses rule over everyone’s life course and over the various patterns of the life thread. Cult evidence related to the Moirai is neither numerous nor explicit about their worshippers’ expectations. Nevertheless, myths and rituals are not unrelated bodies of evidence, but specific languages, which resonate inside the mental frame of poets who narrated tales and worshippers who performed rituals. Both of these aspects of the Greek knowledge about Moirai are closely interconnected and studied as such in the present work. Powers of distribution, reward and regulation, Moirai interact with the stability warranted by Zeus’ authority on a mythical level and take also part in such a balance within human communities.
Disciplines :
History
Author, co-author :
Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Département des sciences de l'antiquité
Pironti, Gabriella
Language :
French
Title :
Les Moires entre la naissance et la mort : de la représentation au culte
Publication date :
2011
Event name :
From Fata to Fairies. Des Parques à la fée Carabosse. Colloque international interdisciplinaire
Event organizer :
Université de Lausanne
Event date :
du 7 octobre 2009 au 9 octobre 2009
By request :
Yes
Audience :
International
Journal title :
Études de Lettres
ISSN :
0014-2026
Publisher :
Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Special issue title :
Des Fata aux fées : regards croisés de l'Antiquité à nos jours
Issue :
3-4
Pages :
93-113
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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