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A Companion to Greek Religion
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A Companion to Greek Religion Hardcover - 2007

by Ogden, Daniel (Editor)

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Blackwell Pub, 2007. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 520 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.75 inches.
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Details

  • Title A Companion to Greek Religion
  • Author Ogden, Daniel (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Illustrated.
  • Condition New
  • Pages 522
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blackwell Pub, Malden, MA
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __1405120541
  • ISBN 9781405120548 / 1405120541
  • Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.62 x 7.12 x 1.77 in (24.43 x 18.08 x 4.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Greece - Religion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006025008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 292.08

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-476) and index

From the rear cover

A Companion to Greek Religion covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical, and into the hellenistic period. Each of the volume's 27 essays is written by an international expert and provides a survey of a particular area that reflects contemporary scholarship. All the contributions place an emphasis on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places. Myth is considered alongside religion throughout.

The Companion opens with a review of the Near Eastern background to Greek religion. There follow major sections on the divine powers, communication with the divine, sacred space and time, local religious systems, social organisation and the family in religion, and mystery cults and magic. Further chapters consider the interaction between religion and art, literature, and philosophy. A closing chapter looks at the treatment of Greek religious themes in the cinema.

About the author

Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He is author of Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2002), Greek and Roman Necromancy (2001), and Greek Bastardy (1996), and editor of The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives (2002).