Polytheism and Society at Athens
- Publisher's listprice GBP 78.00
-
37 264 Ft (35 490 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 3 726 Ft off)
- Discounted price 33 538 Ft (31 941 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
37 264 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 November 2005
- ISBN 9780199274833
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 242x164x36 mm
- Weight 1137 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 halftones 0
Categories
Short description:
Probably more is known about the religious life of Athens than of any other ancient city. This book attempts for the first time to give a comprehensive account of that 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 both very pious and very down-to-earth.
MoreLong description:
This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults of households and of smaller groups, the role of religious practice and argumentation in public life, the authority of priests, the activities of religious professionals such as seers and priestesses, magic, the place of theatrical representations of the gods within public attitudes to the divine. A long final section considers the sphere of activity of the various gods, and takes Athens as a uniquely detailed test case for the structuralist approach to polytheism. The work is a synchronic, thematically organized complement (though designed to be read independently) to the same author's Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford 1996).
...[this book] points the way to future developments in the study of both Athenian and Greek religion...an important contribution which certainly deserves its 2005 Criticos Award.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I
Ancestral Gods, Ancestral Tombs: The Household and Beyond
`Those with whom I sacrifice'
Places of Cult: Athens and the Demes
International Religion
Who prays for Athens? Religion in Civic Life
`Those who make a profession out of rites': Unlicensed Religion, and Magic
Religion in the Theatre
II
Festivals and their Celebrants
Things Done at Festivals
The Festival Year
Parthenoi in Ritual
The Panathenaea
Women's Festivals: Thesmophoria and Adonia
The Anthesteria and other Dionysiac Rites
Eleusinian Festivals
Festivals, Rituals, Myths: Reprise
Gods at Work I: Protecting the City
Gods at Work II: The Growth of Plants and Men
Epilogue
