Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title A companion to Greek religion / edited by Daniel Ogden
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xx, 497 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
Contents Greek religion and the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noegel -- Olympian gods, Olympian pantheon / Ken Dowden -- A land full of gods : nature deities in Greek religion / Jennifer Larson -- Personification in Greek religious thought and practice / Emma Stafford -- The dead / D. Felton -- Heroes and hero-cults / Gunnel Ekroth -- Prayers and hymns / William D. Furley -- Greek normative animal sacrifice / Jan N. Bremmer -- Divination / Pierre Bonnechere -- A day in the life of a Greek sanctuary / Beate Dignas -- Purity and pollution / Andreas Bendlin -- Festivals / Scott Scullion -- Time and Greek religion / James Davidson -- "Famous Athens, divine polis" : the religious system at Athens / Susan Deacy -- The religious system at Sparta / Nicolas Richer -- The religious system at Alexandria / Françoise Dunand -- The religious system in Arcadia / Madeleine Jost -- Religion and society in classical Greece / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Women, religion, and the home / Janett Morgan -- "Something to do with Aphrodite" : Ta Aphrodisia and the sacred / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge -- Finding Dionysus / Susan Guettel Cole -- The mysteries of Demeter and Kore / Kevin Clinton -- Magic in classical and Hellenistic Greece / Matthew W. Dickie -- Greek religion and literature / Thomas Harrison -- Greek religion and philosophy : the god of the philosopher / Fritz-Gregor Herrmann -- Greek religion and art / T.H. Carpenter -- Gods of the silver screen : cinematic representations of myth and divinity / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Summary "A Companion to Greek Religion" covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Each of the volume's 29 essays is written by an international expert and provides a survey of a particular area that reflects contemporary scholarship. All the contributions place an emphasis on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places. Myth is considered alongside religion throughout. "The Companion" opens with a series of contextual essays devoted to the Near-Eastern and Minoan backgrounds to Greek religion, the religious structures of Greek society, women and sex in religious life, and mystery cults and magic. There follow major sections on local religious systems, sacred space and ritual, and the divine. Other chapters consider the interactions between religion and art, literature and philosophy, and look at particular topics, such as time in Greek religion, whether the Greeks can be said to have had religious wars, and representations of Greek religion in cinema
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-476) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Religion
Religion
Godsdienst.
Griekse oudheid.
Religió.
SUBJECT Greece -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
Subject Greece
Griechenland Altertum
Grècia.
Genre/Form Handboeken (vorm)
Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
Author Ogden, Daniel
ISBN 9781405182164
1405182164
9781405120548
1405120541
9780470997345
0470997346
9781405185028
1405185023
1280932422
9781280932427
9780470996911
0470996919
9781444334173
1444334174