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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of illustrations, maps and tables 10 Preface and acknowledgments 13 Using this book 18 Abbreviations 19 1 What is Greek religion? 22 Essay 1.1: Twelve gods, and other ways to limit a pantheon 44 Essay 1.2: Homer’s Hera and the Hera(s) of cult 52 Essay 1.3: Reciprocity in Greek religion 61 2 Implicit theology and the (ir)rational 87 Essay 2.1: Epiphanies of Athena 109 Essay 2.2: What do the gods know? 116 Essay 2.3: Myth, ritual and Adonis 123 3 Orthopraxy, identity and society 148 Essay 3.1: The inclusiveness of the Panathenaic festival 163 Essay 3.2: Dancing for the gods 169 Essay 3.3: The Kyrene cathartic law 177 4 Ritual, festival and sacrifice 208 Essay 4.1: Sacrificing to Zeus Polieus on Kos 225 Essay 4.2: Theseus and the Athenian calendar 232 Essay 4.3: Ritual form and the Greek evidence 240 5 Eschatology, mysteries and hero cults 271 Essay 5.1: How mystical were the Eleusinian Mysteries? 289 Essay 5.2: Texts to accompany the dead 297 Essay 5.3: Three heroic founders 304 6 Memory, continuity and change 331 Essay 6.1: Memory and the Molpoi 348 Essay 6.2: Heracles as a Pan-Mediterranean deity 357 Essay 6.3: The origins of

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Author

Larson, Jennifer Lynn

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities