Polytheism and society at Athens /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Ancestral gods, ancestral tombs : the household and beyond
- 'Those with whom I sacrifice'
- Places of cult : Athens and the Demes
- International religion
- Who prays for Athens? : Religion in civic life
- 'Those who make a profession out of rites' : unlicensed religion, and magic
- Religion in the theatre
- Festivals and their celebrants
- Annexe : the festival Skira
- Things done at festivals
- The festival year
- Annexe : the Oschophoria
- Parthenoi in ritual
- Annexe I : Kanephoroi at Brauron?
- Annexe 2 : Festivals for boys : the religious world of the gymnasium
- The Panathenaea
- Women's festivals : Thesmophoria and Adonia
- The Anthesteria and other Dionysiac rites
- Eleusinian festivals
- Festivals, rituals, myths : reprise
- Gods at work I : protecting the city
- Gods at work II : the growth of plants and men
- Annexe : heroes and heroines
- Appendix I : Attic festivals : a check list
- Appendix II : Alciphron as heortologist.