Cult, Performance, Politics
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Köp båda 2 för 1596 krAll of these essays help us to rethink old approaches to archaic Greece, and they will undoubtedly inspire new scholarship for many years to come. Susan O Shapiro, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3.
Ancient History This book provides a fascinating insight into a range of cultural, historical, political and literary aspects of archaic Greece...the articles are very clearly written and usually execute the cross-disciplinary exercise with uncommon good sense.
Classical Philology Some of the most interesting work in classical studies in the past twenty years.
1. Introduction; 2. Poetics of Power: The Interpretation of Ritual Action in Archaic Greece; 3. The Archaeology of Ancestors; 4. Divine Selection: Epiphany and Politics in Archaic Greece; 5. Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes; 6. The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom; 7. The Economy of Kudos; 8. Hero Cult and Politics in Herodotus: The Bones of Orestes; 9. It's Murder to Found a Colony; 10. Thucydides' Solonion Reflections; 11. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BCE: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy; Bibliography