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temple’s ritual routine. Greek purity regulations need not concern the ‘‘pure’’ gods who inhabit the sacred realm. The author of ...
do not belong to the cult of a ‘‘Greek’’ deity. For the view that these immigrant cults can be interpreted as ‘‘non-Greek’’ is n ...
reifies – male conceptions about the role of women in Greek culture at large (Carson 1999; Cole 1992; Von Staden 1992). The vari ...
questions as to why we are suffering from the gods, it also entails the prospect of a solution to our misery: ritual purificatio ...
and pollution is the example of Epimenides, a legendary ‘‘purifier’’ (katharte ̄s) from Crete, who is said to have purified Athe ...
theprorrhe ̄sis: the public announcement of the murderer’s identity is accompanied by a solemn proclamation made by private citi ...
proper seems to be followed by a concluding sacrifice: a piglet is offered to Zeus, possibly again on an altar belonging to a pu ...
Chaironeia, a slave is driven out through the city gates while the crowd is chanting ‘‘out withboulimos, in with wealth and heal ...
visualization of the mental state of the protagonists. On the Athenian stage of the fifth century, the myth of the polluted matr ...
CHAPTER TWELVE Festivals Scott Scullion Greek calendars varied from city to city, but the twelve months were most often named af ...
to do so during the Olympics and was unsuccessful, ‘‘for the Athenians also have a very great festival of Zeus Meilichios [‘‘Zeu ...
If new epigraphical evidence turns up it could change the picture as radically as that from Erchia and Thorikos has. Before thos ...
The testimonia to the Diasia are a typical mix of the various kinds of sources we have for Greek festivals. Newly discovered art ...
Spartan cults, took the view that the central theme of the Karneia was not military – that is only Demetrius’ arbitrary judgment ...
Karneia: the festival creates the preconditions for unbridled expeditions of war’’ (1985:236). This interpretation has a certain ...
us on grounds of tradition to do this set of special things rather than another, and Athenaeus’ Boeotian was surely not unusual ...
the grape clusters – or perhaps they do that, Demon says, because they returned to Athens during the harvest. Thedeipnophoroiare ...
opportunity was provided at the festival to recite them. The variation of ‘‘myth’’ and ‘‘myths’’ is itself significant. We often ...
The procession goes to the sanctuary of Athena Skiras in Phaleron where the ‘‘dinner’’ and the race must have taken place, and s ...
the Panathenaea festival wore an application of white make-up (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae732 with Hermippus fr. 25 K-A). The ep ...
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