Julia Kindt

Rethinking Greek Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores 'polis religion' - a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion - and shows ways of moving beyond it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110921
• ISBN-10: 0521110920
• Artikelnr.: 35481675

Autorenporträt

Julia Kindt is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She has a doctorate in Classics from the University of Cambridge and was a Harper Schmitt Fellow, a Catherine Graham Fellow and a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She has published widely on ancient Greek religion, oracles and divination, and Greco-Roman historiography.

Inhaltsangabe

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.