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PART VI Social Organization, the Family, and Sex ...

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Religion and Society in Classical Greece Charles W. Hedrick Jr. Introduction According to Aristotle, ‘‘man is a ...

and well-documented history of effectiveness, and it can be credited with many notable successes. In America, for example, it is ...

authority of god and a divinely ordained human order, what room is left for political self-determination and individual freedom? ...

parlance) ‘‘embedded.’’ Similarities between this unified conception of religion and society and the modern sociological theory ...

through decisions and actions. So Aristotle rigorously excluded the religious from his account in hisPolitics. Plato had gone fu ...

central political ideal and the inalienable characteristic of the citizen, while enslave- ment of aliens flourished. For this re ...

controlled all of Greece, because he ruled his mother, who ruled Themistocles, who ruled Athens, which ruled Greece (Plutarch,Th ...

constitution of the various worshiping groups, which coincided with the organization of the political order, ranging from the en ...

basket [waskane ̄phoros], wearing a chain of figs.’’ The rituals alluded to in this passage are concerned with fertility. For ex ...

cultivating the fields’’ (Philochoros,FGrH328 fr. 97). This inversion of political status is exceptional, yet it finds parallels ...

evacuation of the rural population into the protection of the urban center’s walls during the Peloponnesian War, remarks that re ...

entirely) homogeneous. While phratries might worship gods appropriate to their regional and mythic situations, all seem to have ...

the hellenistic period, certainly existed from at least the sixth century, and probably earlier. In the classical period it is d ...

1990a:188–209. On Lysistrata and Lysimache see Lewis 1955. For Kynosarges and metics see Humphreys 1974. For Bendis, Isis, and A ...

CHAPTER NINETEEN Women, Religion, and the Home Janett Morgan for it is the custom for all women especially...to dedicate whateve ...

2002). This kind of investigative approach offers us the chance to compare and contrast the religious behavior of women in diffe ...

Women645–56). The good citizen wife stays indoors. Women who deviate from this behavior are stereotyped as frightening and unnat ...

wife. Hegeso examines her jewelry (National Museum Athens 3624), Polyxena bids farewell to her child (NMA 723) and Archippe stan ...