On Greek religion
Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrance into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. --from publisher description
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- Full title :On Greek religion / Robert Parker
Summary
Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrance into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. --from publisher description
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- Publication Date:2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication:Ithaca
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 309 s. : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780801449482, 0801449480, 9780801477355, 0801477352
- oclc:ocn768586334
- LC Classification:BL790
- Dewey Decimal:292.08
Table of Contents
Why believe without revelation? : the evidences of Greek religion -- Religion without a church : religious authority in Greece -- Analyzing Greek gods -- The power and nature of heroes -- Killing, dining, communicating -- The experience of festivals -- The varieties of Greek religious experience.
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