Rethinking Greek religion [electronic resource] / Julia Kindt.
"Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Beyond the polis: rethinking Greek religion; 2. Parmeniscus' journey: tracing religious visuality in word and wood; 3. On tyrant property turned ritual object: political power and sacred symbols in ancient Greece and in social anthropology; 4. Rethinking boundaries: the place of magic within the religious culture of ancient Greece; 5. The 'local' and the 'panhellenic' reconsidered: Olympia, dedications and the religious culture of ancient Greece; 6. 'The sex appeal of the inorganic': seeing, touching and knowing the divine during the Second Sophistic; Conclusion.