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Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Robert Parker, Robert Parker is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Clarendon Paperbacks) about?
Most of the commonly read Greek texts address "pollution." The pollution theme appears in tragedies, historical texts, and political oratory. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and Greeks underwent many small purifications in their everyday lives. Certain archaic religiousmovements even made "purification" the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.
Who reads Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Clarendon Paperbacks)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Robert Parker, Robert Parker
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198148357
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Fiction, World Fiction, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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