Religion in the Ancient Greek City
Louise Bruit Zaidman , Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Paul Cartledge (trans.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Description
This book is an English translation of the French work La Religion Grecque. Its purpose is to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The chapters cover first ritual and then myth, rooting the account in the practices of the classical city while also taking seriously the world of the imagination. For this edition the bibliography has been substantially revised to meet the needs of a mainly student, English-speaking readership. The book is enriched throughout by illustrations, and by quotations from original sources.
(Text from the publisher)
Table of contents
List of illustrations
Author’s preface to the English translation
Translator’s introduction
List of sources
PART I – Introduction: How should we study Greek civic religion?
1 – The necessity of cultural estrangement
2 – Some fundamental notions
3 – Sources of evidence
PART II – Cult-practices
4 – Rituals
5 – Religious personnel
6 – Places of cult
7 – Rites of passage
8 – Settings of religious life
9 – Religion and political life
10 – The festival system: the Athenian case
11 – The Panhellenic cults
PART III – Systems for representing the divine
12 – Myths and mythology
13 – A polytheistic religion
14 – Forms of imaginative projection
PART IV – Envoi
15 – Concluding reflections
Appendixes
I – The classical Greek temple
II – The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis
Bibliography
Index
Link