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Savage Energies - Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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Savage Energies - Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality
and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential
essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage
forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece,
whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues,
were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of
myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian
religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep
connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two
virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later
returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty
initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters
of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood
sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on
Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the
annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political
propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian
Wars.
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