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Religion in Hellenistic Athens (Hardcover)
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Religion in Hellenistic Athens (Hardcover)
Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society, 29
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Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in
Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's
domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological
approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely
held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period
represented a decline from the classical era. Drawing from
epigraphical, historical, literary, and archaeological sources,
Mikalson traces the religious cults and beliefs of Athenians from
the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. to the devastation of Athens
by Sulla in 86 B.C., demonstrating that traditional religion played
a central and vital role in Athenian private, social, and political
life. Mikalson describes the private and public religious practices
of Athenians during this period, emphasizing the role these
practices played in the life of the citizens and providing a
careful scruntiny of individual cults. He concludes his study by
using his findings from Athens to call into question several
commonly held assumptions about the general development of religion
in Hellenistic Greece.
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