Companion to Greek Religion
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9780470996911 (ISBN)
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This major addition to Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. * Written by a panel of international experts * Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places * Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine
Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He is author of Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2002), Greek and Roman Necromancy (2001), and Greek Bastardy (1996), and editor of The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives (2002).
List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Notes on Authors and Translations. Abbreviations. Ancient Author Fragment Series. Introduction (Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter). Part I: In the Background. 1. Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East (Scott B. Noegel, University of Washington). Part II: The Powers: The Gods and the Dead. 2. Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon (Ken Dowden, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity in the University of Birmingham). 3. A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion (Jennifer Larson, Kent State University). 4. Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice (Emma Stafford, University of Leeds). 5. The Dead (D. Felton, University of Massachusetts). 6. Heroes and Hero-cults (Gunnel Ekroth, Stockholm University). Part III: Communicating with the Divine. 7. Prayers and Hymns (William D. Furley, Heidelberg University). 8. Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice (Jan N. Bremmer, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). 9. Divination (Pierre Bonnechere, Centre d'etudes classiques in the University of Montreal). Part IV: From Sacred Space to Sacred Time. 10. A Day in the Life of a Greek Sanctuary (Beate Dignas, Somerville College, Oxford). 11. Purity and Pollution (Andreas Bendlin, University of Toronto at Mississauga). 12. Festivals (Scott Scullion, University of Oxford). 13. Time and Greek Religion (James Davidson, University of Warwick). Part V: Local Religious Systems. 14. "Famous Athens, Divine Polis": The Religious System at Athens (Susan Deacy, Roehampton University). 15. The Religious System at Sparta (Nicolas Richer, Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyons). 16. The Religious System at Alexandria (Francoise Dunand, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg). 17. The Religious System in Arcadia (Madeleine Jost, University of Paris X - Nanterre). Part VI: Social Organization, the Family and Sex. 18. Religion and Society in Classical Greece (Charles W. Hedrick, Jr., University of California Santa Cruz). 19. Women, Religion and the Home (Janett Morgan, Bristol University). 20. "Something to do with Aphrodite": Ta Aphrodisia and the Sacred (Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, University of Liege). Part VII: Mysteries and Magic. 21. Finding Dionysus (Susan Guettel Cole, University at Buffalo). 22. The Mysteries of Demeter and Kore (Kevin Clinton, Cornell University). 23. Magic in Classical and Hellenistic Greece (Matthew W. Dickie, University of Illinois). Part VIII: Intersections: Greek Religion and ... 24. Greek Religion and Literature (Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool). 25. Greek Religion and Philosophy: The God of the Philospher (Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, University of Wales, Swansea). 26. Greek Religion and Art (T. H. Carpenter, Ohio University). Part IX: Epilogue. 27. Gods of the Silver Screen: Cinematic Representations of Myth and Divinity (Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, University of Edinburgh).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2008 |
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| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1144 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780470996911 / 9780470996911 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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