Civic rites : democracy and religion in ancient Athens / Nancy Evans.

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Main Author: Evans, Nancy, 1963-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Democracy > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Democracy > Greece > Athens > Religious aspects > History > To 1500.
Religion and politics > Greece > Athens.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Athens (Greece) > Religion.
Physical Description:xvi, 272 pages : illustrations, maps
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates
  • Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy
  • Athena : religion and the democratic polis
  • Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena
  • Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries
  • Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality
  • Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation
  • Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy.