Polytheism and Society at Athens

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0199274835
Paperback: 577 pages
Data: 2006
Format: PDF
Description: In the most down-to-earth Athenian writings, gods, cults and rituals are everywhere.Aristophanes and Theophrastus are not religious writers; they merely reflect the way in which acts of cult and piety are taken for granted in Athenian everyday reality. And examples could be multiplied almost ad infinitum, from art as well as from literature, from public as well as from private life. This book is a kind of long commentary on the religious themes in Aristophanes and Theophrastus and the rest. It is about the pervasiveness and the taken-for-grantedness of religion in Attic life.Rich and varied (and even in some measure precise and detailed) information is available about the religious life of Athens as of no other Greek city; indeed there may be no other polytheistic city in the ancient world the religious life of which is illuminated from so many different angles.

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