Fear and loathing in ancient Athens : religion and politics during the Peloponnesian War /

Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. 'Fear and loathing in ancient Athens,' originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rubel, Alexander, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, UK : Acumen, 2014.
Subjects:	Religion and politics > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500. Political science > Greece > Athens > Philosophy > History > To 1500. Athens (Greece) > Politics and government > To 1500. Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Impiety trials against philosophers and Sophists
The plague, Pericles and the Peloponnesian War
Other prosecutions for impiety
The mutilation of the Herms and the profanation of the mysteries: religious and political implications
Tradition and innovation: the new gods
Building for the gods: sacred architecture during the Peloponnesian War
The Arginusae trial
The trial of Socrates: an overview
Appendix I: Athenian democracy: modern views and ancient realities
Appendix II: Tragedy and history, Euripides and religion
Appendix III: Diocleides' false testimony (415)
Appendix IV: On Hyperbolus' ostracism and the quorum for ostracism.