Religion in the Ancient Greek City / Edition 1

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Overview

An English translation of the French work La Religion Grecque considers how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The bibliography has been substantially revised so it can be more easily used by English speaking students.
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"The book is methodologically sophisticated and can be recommended to anyone wishing to be brought up to date in the field of Greek religion." Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"...brims with enthusiasm for the subject and for current theoretical approaches." Jon D. Mikalson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"...an up-to-date, concise and readable textbook, which brings to the English-speaking general reader a synthesis of much of the past thirty years' work of the 'Paris School' of classical studies....The translation is lively, but sacrifices none of the theoretical rigour of the text....This is a challenging, absorbing study, to be recommended to anyone with an interest in the history of religion." Helen King, Times Literary Supplement

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521423571
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1993
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 302
  • Sales rank: 1,156,865
  • Product dimensions: 5.43 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.79 (d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Author's preface to the English translation
Translator's introduction
List of sources
Pt. I Introduction: How should we study Greek civic religion?
1 The necessity of cultural estrangement
2 Some fundamental notions
3 Sources of evidence
Pt. II Cult-practices
4 Rituals
5 Religious personnel
6 Places of cult
7 Rites of passage
8 Settings of religious life
9 Religion and political life
10 The festival system: the Athenian case
11 The Panhellenic cults
Pt. III Systems for representing the divine
12 Myths and mythology
13 A polytheistic religion
14 Forms of imaginative projection
Pt. IV Envoi
15 Concluding reflections
App. I The classical Greek temple
App. II The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis
Bibliography
Index and glossary
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