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On Greek religion /

"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parker, Robert, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 60.
Cornell studies in classical philology. Townsend lectures.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why believe without revelation? : the evidences of Greek religion
  • Religion without a church : religious authority in Greece
  • Analyzing Greek gods
  • The power and nature of heroes
  • Killing, dining, communicating
  • The experience of festivals
  • The varieties of Greek religious experience.