Andrej Petrovic (PhD Heidelberg) is a Reader at the Classics and Ancient History Department, Durham University. He specialises in the study of Greek religion and Greek epigraphy (in particular ritual norms and verse inscriptions), and has published widely on these topics. His previous authored and co-edited books include Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften (Brill 2007) and Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (CUP 2010). His current book-length projects, undertaken jointly with Ivana Petrovic, include an investigation of inner purity and pollution within the wider Mediterranean context, and a study of bound divinities.Ivana Petrovic (PhD Heidelberg / Giessen) is a Senior Lecturer at Durham University. Her first book dealt with representations of contemporary religious life in the Hellenistic poetry Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp. Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos, Brill 2007, and she has co-edited volumes and published extensively on Ancient Greek poetry, Greek and Roman religion and magic, and material culture and art (CUP, Steiner Verlag, Brill). Her two forthcoming books, co-authored jointly with Andrej Petrovic, deal with inner purity and pollution from the Hellenistic period onwards and the divine bondage in Greek religion.

The authors' own commitment both to the seriousness of their project and to the clarity of its presentation is commendable. This exemplary desire to elucidate and contextualizeis evident throughout. Among the book's many solid discussions of individual works and passages the penultimate chapter on the gold tablets stands outas particularly strong and judicious, especially for its clarity about what it is trying to achieve and what the available evidence will support.

• PART 1: AN EPIC VIEW; PART 2: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION IN PRE-PLATONIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION; PART 3: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION IN SYMPOTIC SETTINGS; PART 4: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION ON THE CENTRAL STAGE: THE EVIDENCE OF DRAMA; PART 5: A DIFFERENT KIND OF INNER PURITY

Andrej Petrovic (PhD Heidelberg) is a Reader at the Classics and Ancient History Department, Durham University. He specialises in the study of Greek religion and Greek epigraphy (in particular ritual norms and verse inscriptions), and has published widely on these topics. His previous authored and co-edited books include Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften (Brill 2007) and Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (CUP 2010). His current book-length projects, undertaken jointly with Ivana Petrovic, include an investigation of inner purity and pollution within the wider Mediterranean context, and a study of bound divinities.Ivana Petrovic (PhD Heidelberg / Giessen) is a Senior Lecturer at Durham University. Her first book dealt with representations of contemporary religious life in the Hellenistic poetry Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp. Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos, Brill 2007, and she has co-edited volumes and published extensively on Ancient Greek poetry, Greek and Roman religion and magic, and material culture and art (CUP, Steiner Verlag, Brill). Her two forthcoming books, co-authored jointly with Andrej Petrovic, deal with inner purity and pollution from the Hellenistic period onwards and the divine bondage in Greek religion.

The authors' own commitment both to the seriousness of their project and to the clarity of its presentation is commendable. This exemplary desire to elucidate and contextualizeis evident throughout. Among the book's many solid discussions of individual works and passages the penultimate chapter on the gold tablets stands outas particularly strong and judicious, especially for its clarity about what it is trying to achieve and what the available evidence will support.

• PART 1: AN EPIC VIEW; PART 2: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION IN PRE-PLATONIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION; PART 3: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION IN SYMPOTIC SETTINGS; PART 4: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION ON THE CENTRAL STAGE: THE EVIDENCE OF DRAMA; PART 5: A DIFFERENT KIND OF INNER PURITY

Andrej Petrovic (PhD Heidelberg) is a Reader at the Classics and Ancient History Department, Durham University. He specialises in the study of Greek religion and Greek epigraphy (in particular ritual norms and verse inscriptions), and has published widely on these topics. His previous authored and co-edited books include Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften (Brill 2007) and Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (CUP 2010). His current book-length projects, undertaken jointly with Ivana Petrovic, include an investigation of inner purity and pollution within the wider Mediterranean context, and a study of bound divinities.Ivana Petrovic (PhD Heidelberg / Giessen) is a Senior Lecturer at Durham University. Her first book dealt with representations of contemporary religious life in the Hellenistic poetry Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp. Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos, Brill 2007, and she has co-edited volumes and published extensively on Ancient Greek poetry, Greek and Roman religion and magic, and material culture and art (CUP, Steiner Verlag, Brill). Her two forthcoming books, co-authored jointly with Andrej Petrovic, deal with inner purity and pollution from the Hellenistic period onwards and the divine bondage in Greek religion.

The authors' own commitment both to the seriousness of their project and to the clarity of its presentation is commendable. This exemplary desire to elucidate and contextualizeis evident throughout. Among the book's many solid discussions of individual works and passages the penultimate chapter on the gold tablets stands outas particularly strong and judicious, especially for its clarity about what it is trying to achieve and what the available evidence will support.

• PART 1: AN EPIC VIEW; PART 2: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION IN PRE-PLATONIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION; PART 3: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION IN SYMPOTIC SETTINGS; PART 4: INNER PURITY AND POLLUTION ON THE CENTRAL STAGE: THE EVIDENCE OF DRAMA; PART 5: A DIFFERENT KIND OF INNER PURITY