Religion in the Ancient Greek City

Name: Religion in the Ancient Greek City
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ISBN: 9780521423571

ISBN-10: 0521423570

ISBN-13: 9780521423571

Edition: 1992

Authors: Louise Bruit Zaidman, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Paul Cartledge

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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…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880



List of illustrations


Authors preface


Translator's introduction


List of sources



Introduction: How Should we Study Greek Civic Religion?



The necessity of cultural estrangement



Some fundamental notions



Sources of evidence



Cult-Practices



Rituals



Religious personnel



Places of cult



Rites of passage



Settings of religious life



Religion and political life



The festival system: the Athenian case



The Panhellenic cults



System for Representing the Divine



Myths and mythology



A polytheistic religion



Forms of imaginative projection



Envoi



Concluding reflections


Appendixes



The classical Greek temple



The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis


Bibliography


Index and glossary