Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)

Rethinking Greek Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek religion beyond the traditional paradigm of 'polis religion'. Comparative in method and outlook, it discusses such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic and theology. Valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521127738
• ISBN-10: 0521127734
• Artikelnr.: 35579478

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.