Religion in the Ancient Greek CityCambridge University Press, 1992 M12 17 - 278 páginas This book is a translation into English of La religion grecque by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, described by Dr Simon Price as 'an excellent book, by far the best introduction to the subject in any language'. It is the purpose of the book to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in the world of the Greek citizen - the functions performed by the religious personnel, and the place that religion occupied in individual, social and political life. The chapters cover first ritual and then myth, rooting the account in the practices of the classical city while also taking seriously the world of the imagination. For this edition the bibliography has been substantially revised to meet the needs of a mainly student, English-speaking readership. The book is enriched throughout by illustrations, and by quotations from original sources. |
Contenido
The necessity of cultural estrangement | 3 |
Some fundamental notions | 8 |
Sources of evidence | 16 |
Rituals | 27 |
Religious personnel | 46 |
Places of cult | 55 |
Rites of passage | 63 |
Settings of religious life | 80 |
The Panhellenic cults | 112 |
Myths and mythology | 143 |
A polytheistic religion | 176 |
Forms of imaginative projection | 215 |
Concluding reflections | 231 |
The classical Greek temple | 235 |
The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis | 242 |
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Religion in the Ancient Greek City Louise Bruit Zaidman,Pauline Schmitt Pantel Sin vista previa disponible - 1992 |
Términos y frases comunes
Akropolis altar ancient Greek animal Anthesteria Aphrodite Apollo Archaic Arkhon Artemis Asklepios Athene's Athenian Agora Athens Attic birth celebrated century BCE chapter citizens city's civic community Classical Greek Classical period complex context cult cult-places cultic dead dedicated deities Delos Delphi deme Demeter Detienne Dionysiac Dionysos divine drachmas earth Eleusinian Mysteries Eleusis example father festival fifth century fourth century function Games goddess gods Greece Greek city Greek religion Greek world hand Hephaistos Hera Herakles Hermes heroes Hesiod Homer Homeric Hymn honour human immortal initiates interpretation Kronos libation Maenads Mantineia marriage meat mortal Mysteries mythology myths offerings oikos Olympia oracle original Orphics Panathenaia Panhellenic pantheon Paris Parthenon Pausanias phratry political pollution Poseidon prayer priest priestess procession Prometheus Propylaia Pythian race religious representation rites ritual rôle sacred sacrifice sacrificed sanctuary slaughter Sparta status symbolic temple Theogony tomb trans translation Vernant victim women worship Zeus