A Companion to Greek Religion Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World 1st Edition by Daniel Ogden ISBN 1444334174 978-1444334173

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ISBN 10: 1444334174

ISBN 13:  978-1444334173

Author:  Daniel Ogde

This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period.
Written by a panel of international experts
Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places
Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine

Table of contents: 

Part I: In the Background

1. Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East – Scott B. Noegel

Part II: The Powers – The Gods and the Dead
2. Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon – Ken Dowden
3. A Land Full of Gods: Nature Deities in Greek Religion – Jennifer Larson
4. Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice – Emma Stafford
5. The Dead – D. Felton
6. Heroes and Hero-Cults – Gunnel Ekroth

Part III: Communicating with the Divine
7. Prayers and Hymns – William D. Furley
8. Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice – Jan N. Briem
9. Divination – Pierre Bonnechere

Part IV: From Sacred Space to Sacred Time
10. A Day in the Life of a Greek Sanctuary – Blessed are you
11. Purity and Pollution – Andreas Bendlin
12. Festivals – Scott Scullion
13. Time and Greek Religion – James Davidson

Part V: Local Religious Systems
14. “Famous Athens, Divine Polis”: The Religious System at Athens – Susan Deacy
15. The Religious System at Sparta – Nicolas Richer
16. The Religious System at Alexandria – Françoise Dunand
17. The Religious System in Arcadia – Madeleine Jost

Part VI: Social Organization, the Family, and Sex
18. Religion and Society in Classical Greece – Charles W. Hedrick Jr.
19. Women, Religion, and the Home – Janett Morgan
20. “Something to do with Aphrodite”: Ta Aphrodisia and the Sacred – Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

Part VII: Mysteries and Magic
21. Finding Dionysus – Susan Guettel Cole
22. The Mysteries of Demeter and Kore – Kevin Clinton
23. Magic in Classical and Hellenistic Greece – Matthew W. Dickie

Part VIII: Intersections – Greek Religion and…
24. Greek Religion and Literature – Thomas Harrison
25. Greek Religion and Philosophy: The God of the Philosopher – Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
26. Greek Religion and Art – T. H. Carpenter

Part IX: Epilogue
27. Gods of the Silver Screen: Cinematic Representations of Myth and Divinity – Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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