Greek Religion A Sourcebook

Name: Greek Religion A Sourcebook
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ISBN: 9781585100316

ISBN-10: 1585100315

ISBN-13: 9781585100316

Edition: N/A

Authors: Valerie M. Warrior

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Book details

List price: $20.95
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Valerie M. Warrior is a scholar of ancient history and religion. She has taught at a number of North American colleges and universities, and is the author of The Initiation of the Second Macedonian War and Roman Religion: A Sourcebook.



Figures and Maps


Preface



Introduction



The Gods in Hesiod's Theogony and Homer's Iliad


The gods in Homer's Iliad



Family and Community


From birth to early adulthood


Betrothal, wedding, and marriage


Marriage contested


Death and death rituals


Epitaphs



Prayer and Sacrifice


Blood and other sacrifice


Ritual purity and pollution


Some ancestral practices



Divination


Oracles


Divination in time of war



Sanctuaries of the Gods


Sacred space


Custom and regulations


Incubation and healing



Festivals


Organization and regulation


The Anthesteria


The Thesmophoria


The Panathenaea



Competitions in Honor of the Gods


The Olympic games


Athenian drama festivals



The Gods and Justice from Homer to Aeschylus



The Gods in Sophocles and Euripides



Mystery Cults and Initiation


Orphic and Bacchic texts


The Mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis



Challenges to Traditional Religion


The Presocratics


The Sophists


The mutilation of the Herms and the profanation of the Mysteries


The trial and death of Socrates



Magic, Sorcery, and Witchcraft


Binding spells


Sorcery and witchcraft in the literary sources



New Cults and New Gods


Gods


Glossary


Chronology


Maps


Ancient Literary Sources


Bibliography


Credits


Index of Texts Cited


General Index