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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1611: Paucity and Plenty in Medieval Slavic Pre-Christian and Christian Traditions

Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Organiser:Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Moderator/Chair:Carlos Molina Valero, Departamento de Filología Clásica e Indoeuropeo, Universidad de Salamanca
Paper 1611-aFortune and Fertility Rites among the Western Slavs in the Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
(Language: English)
Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa Núñez, Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Pagan Religions
Paper 1611-bFortune and Fertility Rites among the Eastern Slavs in the Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
(Language: English)
Enrique Santos Marinas, Departamento de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Pagan Religions
Paper 1611-cConcepts of Fortune, Poverty, and Wealth in the Christianization Process of the Slavs: The Evidence from Menander Wisdom
(Language: English)
Patricia González Almarcha, College of Arts & Sciences, Iliá Chavchavadze State University, Tbilisi
Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Pagan Religions
Abstract

Throughout the centuries humankind addressed to deities in order to avoid paucity and procure plenty and wealth. In this session we will make a survey of medieval Slavic culture, showing the concepts of fortune, poverty and wealth in Slavic pre-Christian religion, as attested in the sources gathered by professor J. A. Álvarez-Pedrosa and his research group, as well as their subsequent evolution during the christianization process, that can be traced in the Slavonic versions of Menander's wise sentences.