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Author Zaidman, Louise Bruit.

Title Religion in the ancient Greek city / Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel ; translated by Paul Cartledge
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description xx, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Authors' preface -- Translator's introduction -- List of sources -- Part I. Introduction: How Should we Study Greek Civic Religion?: 1. The necessity of cultural estrangement -- 2. Some fundamental notions -- 3. Sources of evidence -- Part II. Cult-Practices: 4. Rituals -- 5. Religious personnel -- 6. Places of cult -- 7. Rites of passage -- 8. Settings of religious life -- 9. Religion and political life -- 10.The festival system: the Athenian case -- 11.The Panhellenic cults -- Part III. System for Representing the Divine: 12. Myths and mythology -- 13. A polytheistic religion -- 14. Forms of imaginative projection -- Part IV. Envoi: 15. Concluding reflections -- Appendixes: I. The classical Greek temple -- II. The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis -- Bibliography -- Index and glossary
Summary Stock gap project
Analysis Greece
Religion History
Greece
Religion History
Notes Translation of: La religion grecque
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index
Notes Text in Arabic
Subject Cities and towns -- Greece.
Mythology, Greek.
SUBJECT Greece -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
Author Schmitt Pantel, Pauline.
LC no. 91039843
ISBN 0521412625 (hard)
0521423570 (paperback)
Other Titles Religion grecque. English