Religions of the Ancient Greeks
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- Author: Simon Price
- Date Published: June 1999
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521382014
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This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price examines local practices and concepts in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them to such issues as gender roles, political life, and the trial of Socrates. He lays emphasis on the reactions to Greek religions of ancient thinkers--Greek, Roman and Christian. The evidence drawn on is of all kinds: literary, inscriptional and archaeological.
Read more- Simon Price is one of the co-authors of Beard, North and Price: Religions of Rome vols. 1 and 2 (1998)
- Looks at religious life and practices in their strict historical context
- Covers the archaic and classical period but also looks seriously at the Roman period and the interaction with Christianity
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"Price has admirably filled the long-standing need for a concise and up-to-date critical survey of the place of religious practice in Greek society....an exceptionally useful and stimulating book." Choice
See more reviews"This book offers much diverse material for courses on Greek religion, a diversity greater than any comparable resource." Phoenix
"Not abstract and self-contained systems of religion or myths, but local practices and ideas of Greek religious life from the eigth century BC to the fifth century AD are what interest Price..." Reference & Research Book News
"[a] striking accomplishment." Journal of Religion
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- Date Published: June 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521382014
- length: 232 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 157 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 36 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Gods, myths and festivals
3. Religious places
4. Authority, control and crisis
5. Girls and boys, women and men
6. Elective cults
7. Greek thinkers
8. Reactions to Greek religions.
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