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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...

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Autor principal: Evans, Nancy, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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