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This book provides the first systematic study of the role of
animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious
experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the
material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international
team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained
presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural
practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient
Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in
divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of
dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of
other 'magical' means. Taken together, the individual contributions
to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a
triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans,
but also animals as a third player and point of reference. Animals
in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and
scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more
broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations
in the ancient world.
This book provides the first systematic study of the role of
animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious
experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the
material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international
team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained
presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural
practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient
Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in
divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of
dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of
other 'magical' means. Taken together, the individual contributions
to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a
triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans,
but also animals as a third player and point of reference. Animals
in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and
scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more
broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations
in the ancient world.
Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood
sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the
ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current
scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on
to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis
religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive
conception of ancient Greek religion beyond this traditional
paradigm. Comparative in method and outlook, the book invites its
readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journey touching upon
such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic
and theology. Specific examples include the transformation of
tyrant property into ritual objects, the cultural practice of
setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make
love to Praxiteles' famous statue of Aphrodite. The book will be
valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the
complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.
Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks
become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book
explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and
practices are encoded in and communicate with various local
environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its
different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective,
they include numerous other places and locations above and below
the polis-level as well as those fully or largely independent of
the city-state. Overall, the local emerges as a relational concept
that changes together with our understanding of the general or
universal forces as they shape ancient Greek religion. The unity
and diversity of ancient Greek religion becomes tangible in the
manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact
with each other at different times and in different places across
the ancient Greek world.
Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous
prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of
the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites
readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along
with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Pausanias and Athenaeus,
offering the first comparative and extended enquiry into the way
these and other authors force us to move the link between religion
and narrative centre stage. Their accounts of Delphi and its
prophecies reflect a world in which the gods frequently remain
baffling and elusive despite every human effort to make sense of
the signs they give.
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions,
Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity:
a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular
beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and
through religious practices and in and through religious thought
and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained
conversation about the nature of the gods and how to represent and
worship them. It excavates the attitudes towards the gods implicit
in cult practice and analyses the beliefs about the gods embedded
in such diverse texts and contexts as comedy, tragedy, rhetoric,
philosophy, ancient Greek blood sacrifice, myth and other forms of
storytelling. The result is a richer picture of the supernatural in
ancient Greece, and a whole series of fresh questions about how
views of and relations to the gods changed over time.
Revisiting Delphi speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous
prophecies, be they experts on ancient Greek religion, students of
the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It invites
readers to revisit the famous Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, along
with Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Pausanias and Athenaeus,
offering the first comparative and extended enquiry into the way
these and other authors force us to move the link between religion
and narrative centre stage. Their accounts of Delphi and its
prophecies reflect a world in which the gods frequently remain
baffling and elusive despite every human effort to make sense of
the signs they give.
Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood
sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the
ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current
scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on
to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis
religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive
conception of ancient Greek religion beyond this traditional
paradigm. Comparative in method and outlook, the book invites its
readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journey touching upon
such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic
and theology. Specific examples include the transformation of
tyrant property into ritual objects, the cultural practice of
setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make
love to Praxiteles' famous statue of Aphrodite. The book will be
valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the
complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.
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