The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion

by Eidinow, Esther; Kindt, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780199642038
• ISBN10: 0199642036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-12-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Esther Eidinow, Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History, The University of Nottingham,Julia Kindt, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney

Esther Eidinow is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham.

Julia Kindt is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Contributors
Introduction Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt
Part 1: What is Ancient Greek Religion?
1. Unity vs. Diversity?, Robin Osborne
2. Belief vs. Practice?, Tom Harrison
3. Old vs. New?, Emily Kearns
4. Many vs. One?, Vinciane Pirenne Delforge and Gabriella Pironti
Part 2: Types of Evidence
5. Visual Evidence, Milette Gaifman
6. Literary Evidence: Prose, Hannah Willey
7. Literary Evidence: Poetry, Renaud Gagne
8. Epigraphic Evidence, Claire Taylor
9. Material Evidence, Caitlin E. Barrett
10. Papyrology, David Martinez
Part 3: Myths? Contexts and Representations
11. Epic, Richard Martin
12. Art and Imagery, Tanja Scheer
13. Drama, Claude Calame
14. History, Robert Fowler
15. Philosophy, Rick Benitez and Harold Tarrant
Part 4: Where?
16. Temples and Sanctuaries, Mike Scott
17. Households, Families, and Women, Matt Dillon
18. Religion in Communities, Kostas Vlassopoulos
19. Regional Religious Groups, Amphictionies, and Other Leagues, Christy Constantakopoulou
Part 5: How?
20. Religious Expertise, Mike Flower
21. New Gods, Ralph Anderson
22. Impiety, Hugh Bowden
23. 'Sacred Law', Andrej Petrovic
Part 6: Who?
24. Gods: Olympian or Chthonic, Susan Deacy
25. Gods: Origins, Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
26. Heroes: Living or Dead?, Gunnel Ekroth
27. Dead or Alive?, Emanuel Voutiras
28. Daimonic Power, Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
29. Deification: Gods or Men?, Ivana Petrovic
Part 7: What?
30. Prayer and Curse, Henk Versnel
31. Sacrifice, Fred Naiden
32. Oracles and Divination, Sarah Iles Johnston
33. Epiphany, Verity Platt
34. Healing, Fritz Graf
Part 8: When?
35. From Birth to Death: Life-changing Rituals, Sarah Hitch
36. Ritual Cycles: Calendars and Festivals, Jan-Matheiu Carbon
37. Imagining the After-Life, Radcliffe Edmonds III
Part 9: Beyond?
38. Magna Graecia (South Italy and Sicily), Gillian Shepherd
39. The Northern Black Sea: The Case of the Bosporan Kingdom, Maya Muratov
40. The Ancient Near East, Jan Bremmer
41. Greco-Egyptian Religion, Kathrin Kleibl
42. Bactria and India, Rachael Mairs
43. China and Greece: Comparisons and Insights, Lisa Raphals
Index