Cults and rites in Ancient Greece : essays on religion and society / Michael H. Jameson ; edited by Allaire B. Stallsmith ; with an introduction by Paul Cartledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jameson, Michael H., author.

Contributor:

Stallsmith, Allaire Brisbane, editor.

Cartledge, Paul, writer of introduction.

Cambridge University Press.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek prose literature--History and criticism.

Greek prose literature.

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 362 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2014]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. Gods and Heroes. Introduction Fritz Graf

1. The hero Echetlaeus

2. Perseus, the hero of Mykenai

3. Apollo Lykeios in Athens

4. The asexuality of Dionysus

Part II. Rites. Introduction Christopher Faraone

5. Sophocles, Antigone 1005-1022: an illustration

6. Sacrifice before battle

7. The ritual of the Athena Nike parapet

8. Theoxenia

Part III. Religion and Society. Introduction Robert Parker

9. Lambda, Labda, Labdakos

10. Sacrifice and animal husbandry in Classical Greece

11. Religion in the Athenian democracy

12. The spectacular and the obscure in Greek religion; Part IV. Michael Jameson and the Study of Greek Religion. Introduction Jan Bremmer

13. Sacred space and the city: Greece and Bhaktapur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-353) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9781139023702

1139023705

Publisher Number:

99986792104

40024466798

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.