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Author Rubel, Alexander, 1969-

Title Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens : Religion and Politics During the Peloponnesian War
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the English edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Impiety trials against philosophers and Sophists; 3. The Plague, Pericles and the Peloponnesian War; 4. Other prosecutions for impiety; 5. The mutilation of the Herms and the profanation of the Mysteries: religious and political implications; 6. Tradition and innovation: the new gods; 7. Building for the gods: sacred architecture during the Peloponnesian War; 8. The Arginusae trial; 9. The trial of Socrates: an overview
Appendix I: Athenian democracy: modern views and ancient realitiesAppendix II: Tragedy and history, Euripides and religion; Appendix III: Diocleides' false testimony (415); Appendix IV: On Hyperbolus' ostracism and the quorum for ostracism; Abbreviations; Notes; References; Index
Summary Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek religion. The book explores an extraordinary range of events and topics, and will be an indispensable study for students and scholars studying Athenian religion and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Religion and politics -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Political science -- Greece -- Athens -- Philosophy -- History -- To 1500
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Political science -- Philosophy
Politics and government
Religion and politics
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government -- To 1500
Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057083
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Vickers, Michael
Piftor, Alina
ISBN 9781317544807
1317544803
9781315729060
1315729067
Other Titles Stadt in Angst. English