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Polytheism and Society at Athens (Paperback, New Ed)
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Polytheism and Society at Athens (Paperback, New Ed)
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This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a
comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The
city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to
recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults
of households and of smaller groups, the role of religious practice
and argumentation in public life, the authority of priests, the
activities of religious professionals such as seers and
priestesses, magic, the place of theatrical representations of the
gods within public attitudes to the divine. A long final section
considers the sphere of activity of the various gods, and takes
Athens as a uniquely detailed test case for the structuralist
approach to polytheism. The work is a synchronic, thematically
organized complement (though designed to be read independently) to
the same author's Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford 1996).
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