Religion and education in the ancient Greek world /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Salvo, Irene (Editor), Scheer, Tanja Susanne (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]
Series:	SERAPHIM, Studies in education and religion in ancient and pre-modern history in the Mediterranean and its environs ; 13.
Subjects:	Greece > Religion > History > To 146 B.C. Religious education > Greece > History > To 146 B.C. Education, Greek > Religious aspects. Éducation grecque > Aspect religieux. Religion. Religious education. Greece. To 146 B.C. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

I. Introductions. Greek religion and education : key concepts and aims / Irene Salvo, Tania S. Scheer
Educating citizens : knowledge, competence, and values in Greek Poleis / Josine Blok
II. Actors and models. The pedagogical function of cult associations in Late Classical Athens / Irene Salvo
Female role models in the Hellenistic Period : the evidence of religious norms / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou
Sacred personnel as role models in the post-Classical Period / Marietta Horster
III. Performing knowledge. Learning by suffering? : 'education' and 'religion' in Ancient Greek theatre / Susanne Gödde
Dancing little bears / Sophie Marianne Bocksberger
IV. Skills and media. Conveying religious knowledge in classical Athens : imagery in Athenian religious discourse / Tanja S. Scheer
Greek priestesses and literacy / Aleksander Wolicki
Numeracy in the sanctuary / Serafina Cuomo
V. Astrology, philosophy, and religion. Theōn Hemerai : astrology, the planetary week, and the cult of the Seven Planets in the Graeco-Roman world / Ilaria Bultrighini
Statues as theological treatises : Porphyry's approach in Peri agalmatōn in context / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler.