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On Greek Religion /

Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrance into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. --from publisher des...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parker, Robert, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.