Polytheism and Society at Athens
By: by Robert Parker.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780191534522
Table of contents: title: Ancestral Gods, Ancestral Tombs: The Household and Beyond; title: "Those with Whom I Sacrifice"; title: Places of Cult: Athens and the Demes; title: International Religion; title: Who Prays for Athens?: Religion in Civic Life; title: "Those Who Make a Profession out of Rites": Unlicensed Religion and Magic; title: Religion in the Theatre; title: Festivals and their Celebrants; title: Annexe: the Festival Skira; title: Things Done at Festivals; title: The Festival Year; title: Annexe: The Oschophoria; title: Parthenoi in Ritual; title: Annexe I: Kanephoroi at Brauron?; title: Annexe 2: Festivals for Boys: The Religious World of the Gymnasium; title: The Panathenaea; title: Women's Festivals: Thesmophoria and Adonia; title: The Anthesteria and Other Dionysiac Rites; title: Eleusinian Festivals; title: Festivals, Rituals, Myths: Reprise; title: Gods at Work I: Protecting the City; title: Gods at Work II: The Growth of Plants and Men; title: Annexe: Heroes and Heroines; title: Appendix I: Attic Festivals: A Check List; title: Appendix II: Alciphron as Heortologist