A brief but highly informative book on Greek religion in the classical period.
Throughout the book, vivid descriptions of actual sanctuaries and practices, the inclusion of ancient texts in translation, and the use of abundant illustrations re-create the rich and varied religious life of ancient Greece.
This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period.
The text builds up an impressive and coherent picture of the current state of knowledge about the religion of the ancient Greeks. This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation.
Glossary, chronology, bibliography, maps. Designed as a companion to Warrior's Roman Religion: A Sourcebook, this text provides an introduction to the fundamentals of ancient Greek religious belief and ritual through sources.
Amid a vast archipelago of scattered islets of information, only a few are of a size to be habitable."—from the Preface In On Greek Religion, Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrée into the world of ancient Greek ...
Explores 'polis religion' - a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion - and shows ways of moving beyond it.
Modern scholars have seen women's most important religious activity in classical Greece as their participation in fertility rituals. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study shows how women's role in religion was more important than that of men.
This edition also expands discussion of magic and personal practices and includes an updated and expanded bibliography for each chapter.
Using preserved cuneiform texts, this book explores cases of contact or influence between Ancient Greece and the Hittites to further our understanding of the complex history of religious practices.
Vaitl, Dieter, Niels Birbaumer, John Gruzelier, Graham A. Jamieson, Boris Kotchoubey, Andrea Kübler, Ute Strehl, Dietrich Lehmann, Wolfgang H. R. Miltner, Thomas Weiss, Ulrich Ott, Gebhard Sammer, Peter Pütz, Jiri Wackermann and Inge ...