Format:
1 online resource (577 pages)
ISBN:
9780191534522
Content:
Probably more is known about the religious life of Athens than of any other ancient city. This book attempts for the first time to give a comprehensive account of that religion from every angle - public festivals are there, including the Eleusinian Mysteries, but so are private rites and magic, and the treatment of religion by the great playwrights of Athens. The Athenians emerge as both very pious and very down-to-earth.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- 1 Ancestral Gods, Ancestral Tombs: The Household and Beyond -- 2 'Those with Whom I Sacrifice' -- 3 Places of Cult: Athens and the Demes -- 4 International Religion -- 5 Who Prays for Athens? Religion in Civic Life -- 6 'Those Who Make a Profession out of Rites': Unlicensed Religion, and Magic -- 7 Religion in the Theatre -- II -- 8 Festivals and Their Celebrants -- Annexe: The FESTIVAL Skira -- 9 Things Done at Festivals -- 10 The Festival Year -- Annexe: The Oschophoria -- 11 Parthenoi in Ritual -- Annexe 1: Kanephoroi at Brauron? -- Annexe 2: Festivals for Boys: The Religious World of the Gymnasium -- 12 The Panathenaea -- 13 Women's Festivals: Thesmophoria and Adonia -- 14 The Anthesteria and other Dionysiac Rites -- 15 Eleusinian Festivals -- 16 Festivals, Rituals, Myths: Reprise -- III -- 17 Gods at Work I: Protecting the City -- 18 Gods at Work II: The Growth of Plants and Men -- Annexe: Heroes and Heroines -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Attic Festivals: A Check List -- Appendix 2: Alciphron as Heortologist -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Select Index of Sources and Monuments -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- X.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199216116
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199216116
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=424905
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