A Companion to Greek ReligionDaniel Ogden 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.
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East | 21 |
The Gods and the Dead | 39 |
Contents | 86 |
Heroes and HeroCults | 100 |
Prayers and Hymns | 117 |
Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice | 132 |
Divination | 145 |
The Religious System at Sparta | 236 |
The Religious System at Alexandria | 253 |
The Religious System in Arcadia | 264 |
Social Organization the Family and Sex | 281 |
Finding Dionysus | 327 |
The Mysteries of Demeter and Kore | 342 |
Magic in Classical and Hellenistic Greece | 357 |
Greek Religion and | 371 |
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Acropolis Aegean Alexandria altar ancient animal Anthesteria Aphrodite Apollo appears Arcadian archaic Aristophanes Artemis Asclepius associated Athenian Athens attested Attic Burkert celebrated century BC Chapter context cult culture dead death dedicated deities Delphi Demeter Dionysiac Dionysus divine earth Eleusis epic epithet Eubouleus Euripides evidence example female festival fifth century figure fourth century goddess gods Greece Greek religion Greek world Hades Harryhausen hellenistic period Hera Heracles Hermes hero-cults Herodotus heroes Hesiod Homer honor human hymns Iakchos Iliad images important initiates inscriptions Jason Jost Karneia king Kore literary living magic mortal Mount Lykaion Mysteries myth nymphs Odyssey offerings Olympian Olympus oracles Panathenaea pantheon Pausanias performed personifications Plato Plutarch political pollution Poseidon practice prayer priest priestess procession Religious System rites ritual role sacred sacrifice sanctuary sexual social soul sources Sparta Spartans statue story temple texts Thetis tomb tradition underworld vases votive women worship Xenophon Zeus