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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Clarendon Paperbacks
Utgivningsdatum: 1990-03-22
Förlag: Oxford University Press
Dimensioner: 215 x 139 x 26 mm
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ISBN: 9780198147428

Miasma

Name: Miasma
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Author: Robert Parker
ISBN: 9780198147428

Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion

av Robert Parker

Häftad, Engelska, 1990-03-22

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Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.

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