What does the name Eranos mean (even definition)? What is it's origin? And,is it an Italian name?

Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running!


Eranos


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Jump to: navigation, search


Eranos is an intellectual discussion group dedicated to study of spirituality. The name is derived from an ancient Greek word meaning a banquet to which the guests bring contributions of food, a no-host dinner. The group was founded by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn in 1933, and these conferences have been held annually in the grounds of her estate (on the shores of Lago Maggiore near Ascona in Switzerland) ever since. For over sixty years this event has served as a point of contact for thinkers from disparate fields to discuss all things spiritual. The conference takes place over eight days in which time all the participants eat, sleep and live together, thereby promoting a proximity which fosters an atmosphere of discussion. Each year a new topic is addressed and the idea is that each thinker delivers a two hour lecture on the subject - his/her contribution to the 'banquet' of ideas - thereby attempting to draw these multifarious thinkers into productive intellectual discourse.





[edit]


Eranos' Beginnings


Froebe-Kapteyn established this group at the suggestion of the eminent German religious historian, Ruldolf Otto. Froebe-Kapteyn was the Dutch foundress of the Table Ronde, an association which is indicative of the Eranos' 'spiritualist' bent. Indeed Eranos was from its very outset interested in these issues. The title of its first theme was: "Yoga and Meditation in East and West", a trult pioneering subject in the early 1930s. Eranos in its infancy soon came to be associated primarily with Carl Jung. Jung was a regular participant at Eranos, and his conception of mythic archetypes came to be a foundational theory of Eranos.





[edit]


External links


Eranos - official website


Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eranos"


Category: Spirituality





ViewsArticle Discussion Edit this page History Personal toolsSign in / create account Navigation


Main Page


Community Portal


Featured articles


Current events


Recent changes


Random article


Help


Contact Wikipedia


Donations


Search


Toolbox


What links here


Related changes


Upload file


Special pages


Printable version


Permanent link


Cite this article


In other languages


Italiano





This page was last modified 21:55, 24 March 2006. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).


Wikipedia庐 is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.


Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers