A Companion to Greek Religion

by Editor: Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter, UK)

• ISBN13: 9780470997345
• ISBN10: 0470997346
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Notes on Authors and Translations

Abbreviations

Ancient Author Fragment Series

Introduction

In the Background 211

The Powers: The Gods and the Dead

Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon

A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion

Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice

The Dead

Heroes and Hero-cults

Communicating with the Divine

Prayers and Hymns

Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice

Divination

From Sacred Space to Sacred Time

A Day in the Life of a Greek Sanctuary

Purity and Pollution

Festivals

Time and Greek Religion

Local Religious Systems

öFamous Athens, Divine Polisö: The Religious System at Athens

The Religious System at Sparta

The Religious System at Alexandria

The Religious System in Arcadia

Social Organization, the Family and Sex

Religion and Society in Classical Greece

Women, Religion and the Home

öSomething to do with Aphroditeö: Ta Aphrodisia and the Sacred

Mysteries and Magic

Finding Dionysus

The Mysteries of Demeter and Kore

Magic in Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Intersections: Greek Religion and à

Greek Religion and Literature

Greek Religion and Philosophy: The God of the Philospher

Greek Religion and Art

Epilogue

Gods of the Silver Screen: Cinematic Representations of Myth and Divinity

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