Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 272 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520262034
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1282556169
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9780520262027
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9781282556164
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9780520945487
Content:
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary's perspective on Athenian society. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Civic Rites; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Maps; Introduction: The City of Pericles and Socrates; One Cleisthenes: The Family Curse behind Athenian Democracy; Two Athena: Religion and the Demo cratic Polis; Three Pericles: Empire and War in the City of Athena; Four Demeter: Civic Worship, Women's Rites, and the Eleusinian Mysteries; Five Alcibiades: Politics, Religion, and the Cult of Personality; Six Dionysus: Civic Rituals of Wine, Theater, and Transformation; Seven Socrates: Impiety Trials in the Restored Democracy; Epilogue: The City after Socrates; Glossary of Terms
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Suggested Further Readings by ChapterBibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 047211395X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Civic Rites : Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens
Language:
English
