Miasma : Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion Paperback / softback
by Robert (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History,, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History,, Univer Parker
Part of the Clarendon Paperbacks series
Paperback / softback
Description
Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution.
The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes.
In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it.
Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons.
Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life.
Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife.
First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/1990
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- ISBN:9780198147428
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198147428
