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A COMPANION TO GREEK RELIGION 5 Contents 9 List of Figures 12 Notes on Contributors 14 Acknowledgments 19 Note on Authors and Translations 20 Abbreviations 21 Ancient Author Fragment Series 23 Introduction 25 Part I In the Background 43 1 Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East 45 Part II The Powers: The Gods and the Dead 63 2 Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon 65 3 A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion 80 4 Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice 95 5 The Dead 110 6 Heroes and Hero-Cults 124 Part III Communicating with the Divine 139 7 Prayers and Hymns 141 8 Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice 156 9 Divination 169 Part IV From Sacred Space to Sacred Time 185 10 A Day in the Life of a Greek Sanctuary 187 11 Purity and Pollution 202 12 Festivals 214 13 Time and Greek Religion 228 Part V Local Religious Systems 243 14 ''Famous Athens, Divine Polis'': The Religious System at Athens 245 15 The Religious System at Sparta 260 16 The Religious System at Alexandria 277 17 The Religious System in Arcadia 288 Part VI Social Organization, the Family, and Sex 305 18 Religion and Society in Classical Greece 307 19 Women, Religion, and the Home 321 20 ''Something to

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Author

Ogden, Daniel;

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction