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What is ancient Greek religion? This book eschews an Athenocentric view of Greek religion, moving away from a false picture of uniformity and addressing other parts of the Greek world whose particularities are often ignored.
It offers students an overview of core ideas, giving them the conceptual tools for understanding the actions and beliefs that constitute a religion, and also grounds them in the evidence of material culture as well as written sources. It provides contextualizing introductions to key topics, illustrating these with case studies. Illustrated with maps, drawings and images, it provides an insightful and revealing overview of Greek religion.
What is ancient Greek religion? This book eschews an Athenocentric view of Greek religion, moving away from a false picture of uniformity and addressing other parts of the Greek world whose particularities are often ignored.
It offers students an overview of core ideas, giving them the conceptual tools for understanding the actions and beliefs that constitute a religion, and also grounds them in the evidence of material culture as well as written sources. It provides contextualizing introductions to key topics, illustrating these with case studies. Illustrated with maps, drawings and images, it provides an insightful and revealing overview of Greek religion.
Jennifer Larson is Professor of Classics at Kent State University. Her research interests include Greek poetry, mythology and religion. She is the author of Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore (2001) and Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide (2007).
Contents
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Using This Book
Abbreviations
1. What is Greek Religion?
Essay 1.1: Twelve Gods, and Other Ways to Limit a Pantheon
Essay 1.2: Homer's Hera and the Hera(s) of Cult
Essay 1.3: Reciprocity in Greek Religion
2. Implicit Theology and the (Ir)rational
Essay 2.1: Epiphanies of Athena
Essay 2.2: What Do The Gods Know?
Essay 2.3: Myth, Ritual and Adonis
3. Orthopraxy, Identity, and Society
Essay 3.1: The Inclusiveness of the Panathenaic Festival
Essay 3.2: Dancing for the Gods
Essay 3.3: The Kyrene Cathartic Law
4. Ritual, Festival and Sacrifice
Essay 4.1: Sacrificing to Zeus Polieus on Kos
Essay 4.2: Theseus and the Athenian Calendar
Essay 4.3: Ritual Form and the Greek Evidence
5. Eschatology, Mysteries and Hero Cults
Essay 5.1 How Mystical Were the Eleusinian Mysteries?
Essay 5.2 Texts to Accompany the Dead
Essay 5.3 Three Heroic Founders
6. Memory, Continuity and Change
Essay 6.1 Memory and the Molpoi
Essay 6.2 Herakles as Pan-Mediterranean Deity
Essay 6.3 The Origins of Sarapis
Glossary
The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Bibliographical Essay
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe, Religion & Theologie |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780415688468 |
| ISBN-10: | 0415688469 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Larson, Jennifer |
| Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 231 x 155 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jennifer Larson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 23.03.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,839 kg |
Jennifer Larson is Professor of Classics at Kent State University. Her research interests include Greek poetry, mythology and religion. She is the author of Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore (2001) and Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide (2007).
Contents
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Using This Book
Abbreviations
1. What is Greek Religion?
Essay 1.1: Twelve Gods, and Other Ways to Limit a Pantheon
Essay 1.2: Homer's Hera and the Hera(s) of Cult
Essay 1.3: Reciprocity in Greek Religion
2. Implicit Theology and the (Ir)rational
Essay 2.1: Epiphanies of Athena
Essay 2.2: What Do The Gods Know?
Essay 2.3: Myth, Ritual and Adonis
3. Orthopraxy, Identity, and Society
Essay 3.1: The Inclusiveness of the Panathenaic Festival
Essay 3.2: Dancing for the Gods
Essay 3.3: The Kyrene Cathartic Law
4. Ritual, Festival and Sacrifice
Essay 4.1: Sacrificing to Zeus Polieus on Kos
Essay 4.2: Theseus and the Athenian Calendar
Essay 4.3: Ritual Form and the Greek Evidence
5. Eschatology, Mysteries and Hero Cults
Essay 5.1 How Mystical Were the Eleusinian Mysteries?
Essay 5.2 Texts to Accompany the Dead
Essay 5.3 Three Heroic Founders
6. Memory, Continuity and Change
Essay 6.1 Memory and the Molpoi
Essay 6.2 Herakles as Pan-Mediterranean Deity
Essay 6.3 The Origins of Sarapis
Glossary
The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Bibliographical Essay
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe, Religion & Theologie |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780415688468 |
| ISBN-10: | 0415688469 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Larson, Jennifer |
| Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 231 x 155 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jennifer Larson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 23.03.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,839 kg |
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