On Greek Religion

Name: On Greek Religion
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ISBN: 9780801477355

ISBN-10: 0801477352

ISBN-13: 9780801477355

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert C. T. Parker

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"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming abundance of physical remains. But genuinely revealing evidence does not often cluster coherently enough to create a vivid sense of the religious realities of a particular time and place. Amid a vast archipelago of scattered islets of information, only a few are of a size to be habitable."-from the…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Why Believe without Revelation? The Evidences of Greek Religion



Religion without a Church: Religious Authority in Greece



Analyzing Greek Gods



The Power and Nature of Heroes



Killing, Dining, Communicating



The Experience of Festivals



The Varieties of Greek Religious Experience


Appendices



Seeking the Advice of the God on Matters of Cult



Accepting New Gods



Worshipping Mortals, and the Nature of Gods



Types of Chthonian Sacrifice?



The Early History of Hero Cult


Bibliography


Index