The first inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary work of its kind, this book focuses on the importance of visual culture in the study of classical, Roman, and Christian antiquity. It explores the role of the visual in helping to create a vision of the gods and how commitment …
This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but exam…
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
by Garnsey, Peter, Price, Simon, Cartledge, P. A.
fromKey themes in ancient history
This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but exam…
Traces the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D., examining local practices and ideas in the context of general Greek ideas.