Polytheism and society at Athens /
A comprehensive account of Athenian 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 b.
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- 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
- 12 The Panathenaea
- 13 Womens 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
- Appendix 2: Alciphron as Heortologist
- Subject Index
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- E
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- U
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- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Select Index of Sources and Monuments
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