Ancient Greek Religion. - MIKALSON, J.D.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Mikalson's Ancient Greek Religion belongs to the growing bibliography of general or introductory volumes on Greek religion, focusing, as most do, on the classical period and the Athenian world. Within this genre, the current title competes with Bremmer's Greek Religion (1994), as an introductory tome aimed at students. (...) Chapter one gives an overview of ancient Greek worship, based on the description of a sanctuary. M. warns that this section is going to be simplistic, and indeed he creates an imaginary, 'typical' Greek sanctuary (based loosely on that at Sounion in Attica). (...) The second chapter, 'Greek gods, heroes and polytheism', in contrast to the archaeological basis of the first, relies in large part on literary sources and is illustrated by a number of citations. (...) Again some of the information in this section is by necessity rather simplistic, but M. does not shy away from discussion of the thorny problem of 'ouranic' and 'chthonic' deities, observing that some deities are worshipped in d...
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2005Uitgever: Blackwell Publishing225 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0631232230ISBN-13: 9780631232230Koop dit boek tweedehands
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