A companion to Greek religion
By: edited by Daniel Ogden
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world; Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781444334173
Subjects: Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-476) and index.
Table of contents: title: Greek religion and the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noeggel; title: Olympian gods, Olympian pantheon / Ken Dowden; title: A land full of gods : nature deities in Greek religion / Jennifer Larson; title: Personification in Greek religious thought and practice / Emma Stafford; title: The dead / D. Felton; title: Heroes and hero-cults / Gunnel Hekroth; title: Prayers and hymns / William D. Farley; title: Greek normative animal sacrifice / Jan N. Bremmer; title: Divination / Pierre Bonnechere; title: A day in the life of a Greek sanctuary / Beate Dignas; title: ity and pollution / Andreas Bendlin; title: Festivals / Scott Scullion; title: Time and Greek religion / James Davidson; title: "Famous Athens, divine polis" : the religious system at Athens / Susan Deacy; title: The religious system at Sparta / Nicolas Richer; title: The religious system at Alexandria / Franc̜oise Dunand; title: The religious system in Arcadia / Madeleine Jost; title: Religion and society in classical Greece / Charles W. Hedrick Jr.; title: Women, religion, and the home / Janett Morgan; title: "Something to do with Aphrodite" : ta aphrodisia and the sacred / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge; title: Finding Donysius / Susan Guettel Cole; title: The mysteries of Demeter and Kore / Kevin Clinton; title: Magic in classical and Hellenistic Greece / Matthew W. Dickie; title: Greek religion and literature / Thomas Harrison; title: Greek religion and philosophy : the god of the philosopher / Fritz-Gregor Herrmann; title: Greek religion and art / T.H. Carpenter; title: Gods of the silver screen : cinematic representations of myth and divinity / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.