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7628447Adephagia: Goddess of Gluttonyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/adephagia--goddess-of-gluttony-9798231282623/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7252872/image.jpg?v=6388758432811700009797MXNGandhiInStock/Ebooks/<p>In ancient Sicily, Greek colonists did something remarkablethey deified the very excess they sought to control. This scholarly investigation examines Adephagia, the obscure goddess of gluttony known from a single reference in Aelians "Various History," revealing how this marginal deity illuminates sophisticated Greek approaches to managing human appetite.</p><p>Through careful analysis of fragmentary evidence, archaeological contexts, and comparative religious practices, this book reconstructs the possible significance of a goddess who embodied excessive consumption. While acknowledging the speculative nature of such reconstruction, it demonstrates how personifying gluttony potentially served important psychological and social functions in Syracuses agricultural abundance.</p><p>The book explores how Greek religious thought differed fundamentally from later approaches by incorporating potentially problematic human tendencies into divine frameworks rather than condemning them as mere vice. This paradoxical strategycreating relationship with what requires controloffers intriguing parallels to contemporary psychological understanding about the effectiveness of acknowledging rather than denying powerful human drives.</p><p>From Sicilian agricultural contexts to philosophical debates on moderation, from ancient ritual practices to modern consumer challenges, this interdisciplinary study connects a nearly forgotten goddess to enduring questions about human relationship with consumption. In an age of environmental crisis driven by overconsumption, Adephagias cult provides not answers but valuable perspective on our continuing struggle to manage appetite in worlds of finite resources.</p>...7237174Adephagia: Goddess of Gluttony9797https://www.gandhi.com.mx/adephagia--goddess-of-gluttony-9798231282623/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7252872/image.jpg?v=638875843281170000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259798231282623_W3siaWQiOiI1NDIzNmJjZS0zYzVkLTRkNTQtYWE0OC1lZjZmNTBhNDVkZmYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjk3LCJkaXNjb3VudCI6MCwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo5NywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6IklwcCIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDktMDdUMTY6MDA6MDBaIiwidG8iOiIyMDI1LTA5LTMwVDIzOjU5OjU5WiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9LHsiaWQiOiIyNGM5MTRlOS01MDRjLTQ5NWQtOWE4Mi0zMzk2MmNhMjMxMjYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjkzLCJkaXNjb3VudCI6MCwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo5MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6IklwcCIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMTAtMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9798231282623_<p>In ancient Sicily, Greek colonists did something remarkablethey deified the very excess they sought to control. This scholarly investigation examines Adephagia, the obscure goddess of gluttony known from a single reference in Aelians "Various History," revealing how this marginal deity illuminates sophisticated Greek approaches to managing human appetite.</p><p>Through careful analysis of fragmentary evidence, archaeological contexts, and comparative religious practices, this book reconstructs the possible significance of a goddess who embodied excessive consumption. While acknowledging the speculative nature of such reconstruction, it demonstrates how personifying gluttony potentially served important psychological and social functions in Syracuses agricultural abundance.</p><p>The book explores how Greek religious thought differed fundamentally from later approaches by incorporating potentially problematic human tendencies into divine frameworks rather than condemning them as mere vice. This paradoxical strategycreating relationship with what requires controloffers intriguing parallels to contemporary psychological understanding about the effectiveness of acknowledging rather than denying powerful human drives.</p><p>From Sicilian agricultural contexts to philosophical debates on moderation, from ancient ritual practices to modern consumer challenges, this interdisciplinary study connects a nearly forgotten goddess to enduring questions about human relationship with consumption. In an age of environmental crisis driven by overconsumption, Adephagias cult provides not answers but valuable perspective on our continuing struggle to manage appetite in worlds of finite resources.</p>...9798231282623_Legendary Archives Publishinglibro_electonico_9798231282623_9798231282623E LInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/draft2digital_ipp-epub-63f946eb-ca6a-4827-b338-3a9f9357133b.epub2025-07-08T00:00:00+00:00Legendary Archives Publishing