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:1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780801461750, 0801461758
- oclc:ocn732956586
- 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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