Civic rights
Subtitle: democracy and religion in ancient Athens
By: Nancy Evans.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520262027; 9780520262034
Subjects: Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500; Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500; Religion and politics -- Greece -- Athens; Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government; Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C; Athens (Greece) -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates; title: Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy; title: Athena : religion and the democratic polis; title: Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena; title: Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries; title: Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality; title: Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation; title: Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy.