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Miasma - Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Paperback, Reissue): Robert Parker

Miasma - Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Paperback, Reissue)

Robert Parker

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

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Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.

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Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Release date: March 1990
First published: March 1990
Authors: Robert Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History,)
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814742-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
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LSN: 0-19-814742-2
Barcode: 9780198147428

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