Civic rights [electronic resource] : democracy and religion in ancient Athens / Nancy Evans.
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Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
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Variant Title: |
Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.