| Description |
1 online resource (505 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1 A Survey of Scholarship -- 2 The Sources -- 3 The Scope of the Study -- I Prehistory and the Minoan-Mycenaean Age -- 1 The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age -- 2 Indo-European -- 3 The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion -- 3.1 A Historical Survey -- 3.2 The State of the Sources -- 3.3 The Cult Places -- Caves -- Peak Sanctuaries -- Tree Sanctuaries -- House Sanctuaries -- Temples -- Graves -- 3.4 Rituals and Symbols -- 3.5 The Minoan Deities -- 3.6 The Mycenaean Gods and Linear B |
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4 The 'Dark Age' and the Problem of Continuity -- II Ritual and Sanctuary -- 1 'Working Sacred Things': Animal Sacrifice -- 1.1 Description and Interpretation -- 1.2 Blood Rituals -- 1.3 Fire Ritualso -- 1.4 Animal and God -- 2 Gift Offerings and Libation -- 2.1 First Fruit Offerings -- 2.2 Votive Offerings -- 2.3 Libation -- 3 Prayer -- 4 Purification -- 4.1 Function and Methods -- 4.2 The Sacred and the Pure -- 4.3 Death -- 4.4 Purification by Bloodo -- 4.5 Pharmakos -- 5 The Sanctuary -- 5.1 Temenos -- 5.2 Altar -- 5.3 Temple and Cult Image -- 5.4 Anathemata -- 6 Priests -- 7 The Festival |
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7.1 Pompe -- 7.2 Agermos -- 7.3 Dancing and Hymns -- 7.4 Masks, Phalloi, Aischrologia -- 7.5 Agon -- 7.6 The Banquet of the Gods -- 7.7 Sacred Marriage -- 8 Ecstasy and Divination -- 8.1 Enthousiasmos -- 8.2 The Art of the Seer -- 8.3 Oracles -- III The Gods -- 1 The Spell of Homer -- 2 Individual Gods -- 2.1 Zeus -- 2.2 Hera -- 2.3 Poseidon -- 2.4 Athena -- 2.5 Apollo -- 2.6 Artemis -- 2.7 Aphrodite -- 2.8 Hermes -- 2.9 Demeter -- 2.10 Dionysos -- 2.11 Hephaistos -- 2.12 Ares -- 3 The Remainder of the Pantheon -- 3.1 Lesser Gods -- 3.2 Societies of Gods -- 3.3 Nature Deities -- 3.4 Foreign Gods |
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3.5 Daimon -- 4 The Special Character of Greek Anthropomorphism -- IV The Dead, Heroes, and Chthonic Gods -- 1 Burial and the Cult of the Dead -- 2 Afterlife Mythology -- 3 Olympian and Chthonic -- 4 The Heroes -- 5 Figures who cross the Chthonic-Olympian Boundary -- 5.1 Heracles -- 5.2 The Dioskouroi -- 5.3 Asklepios -- V Polis and Polytheism -- 1 Thought Patterns in Greek Polytheism -- General Considerations -- The Family of the Gods -- Pairs of Gods -- Old and Young -- Dionysos -- 2 The Rhythm of the Festivals -- 2.1 Festival Calendars -- 2.2 Year Ending and New Year -- 2.3 Karneia |
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2.4 Anthesteria -- 2.5 Thesmophoria -- 3 Social Functions of Cult -- 3.1 Gods between Amorality and Law -- 3.2 The Oath -- 3.3 The Creation of Solidarity in the Playing and the Interplay of Roles -- 3.4 Initiation -- 3.5 Crisis Management -- 4 Piety in the Mirror of Greek Language -- 4.1 'Sacred' -- 4-2 Theos -- 4.3 Eusebeia -- VI Mysteries and Asceticism -- 1 Mystery Sanctuaries -- 1.1 General Considerations -- 1.2 Clan and Family Mysteries -- 1.3 The Kabeiroi and SamothraceI -- 1.4 Eleusis -- 2 Bacchica and Orphica -- 2.1 Bacchic Mysteries -- 2.2 Bacchic Hopes for an Afterlife |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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2.3 Orpheus and Pythagoras |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118724996 |
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1118724992 |
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