Civic rites : democracy and religion in ancient Athens /
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates
- Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy
- Athena : religion and the democratic polis
- Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena
- Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries
- Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality
- Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation
- Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy
- Epilogue / The City after Socrates.