| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 239 pages) |
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Archaeopress archaeology |
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Part 1. Introduction and Aims of the Study -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Aims of the Study -- General remarks -- Greek or Oriental religiosity -- Notes on method -- The structure of the study -- Interpretive approach -- Time, geography and context -- Sources -- Concluding remarks -- Part 2. The Propitiatory Inscriptions -- Chapter 3. The Propitiatory Inscriptions and their Religious Context -- I. Propitiatory inscriptions -- Geography -- Time -- Content -- Structure |
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Confession of sin -- Oriental religiosity -- Theocracy and a religious legal system -- II. Trails in recent research -- Research following Petzl's publication -- The research situation since 2006 -- III. Conclusions -- Part 3. Religious Transgressions and Punishments -- Chapter 5. Greek Cultic Morality -- I. Cultic morality -- definition -- Introduction -- Morality, moral philosophy and ethics -- Cultic morality and cultic legislation -- Piety -- II. Boundaries and social control -- External boundaries -- Internal boundaries -- III. Creating sacred space -- Sacred space |
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Defining the genre -- Publications and classification of cultic regulations -- Rules for the protection of sacred property. -- II. Prohibitions in cultic regulations -- Prohibitions against entry -- General purity rules -- Prohibitions against impurity -- Detailed purity rules -- Death pollution -- Birth pollution -- Sexual pollution -- Dietary rules -- Clothes, weapons and jewellery -- Domestic animals -- Damage to sacred property -- Violations of sacred trees and groves -- Other prohibitions concerning sacred property -- III. Punishments in cultic regulations -- Civil punishments -- Fines |
| Summary |
This book analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC-3rd century AD. Also considered are so-called propitiatory inscriptions from the 1st-3rd century AD Lydia and Phrygia, in light of 'cultic morality', intended to make places, occasions, and worshippers suitable for ritual |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Corporal punishment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Sin -- Greek religion
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Retribution -- Religious aspects -- Greek religion
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Inscriptions, Lydian.
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Inscriptions, Phrygian.
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Inscriptions, Lydian
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Inscriptions, Phrygian
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789695260 |
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9781789695267 |
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