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Title:
A companion to Greek religion / edited by Daniel Ogden.
Author:
Ogden, Daniel.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Call Number:
BL783 .O43 2010
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Edition:
Paperback ed.
ISBN:
9781444334173
Series:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
Physical Description:
xx, 497 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Greek religion and the ancient Near East / Scott B. Noeggel -- Olympian gods, Olympian pantheon / Ken Dowden -- A land full of gods : nature deities in Greek religion / Jennifer Larson -- Personification in Greek religious thought and practice / Emma Stafford -- The dead / D. Felton -- Heroes and hero-cults / Gunnel Hekroth -- Prayers and hymns / William D. Farley -- Greek normative animal sacrifice / Jan N. Bremmer -- Divination / Pierre Bonnechere -- A day in the life of a Greek sanctuary / Beate Dignas -- ity and pollution / Andreas Bendlin -- Festivals / Scott Scullion -- Time and Greek religion / James Davidson -- "Famous Athens, divine polis" : the religious system at Athens / Susan Deacy -- The religious system at Sparta / Nicolas Richer -- The religious system at Alexandria / Franc̜oise Dunand -- The religious system in Arcadia / Madeleine Jost -- Religion and society in classical Greece / Charles W. Hedrick Jr. -- Women, religion, and the home / Janett Morgan -- "Something to do with Aphrodite" : ta aphrodisia and the sacred / Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge -- Finding Donysius / Susan Guettel Cole -- The mysteries of Demeter and Kore / Kevin Clinton -- Magic in classical and Hellenistic Greece / Matthew W. Dickie -- Greek religion and literature / Thomas Harrison -- Greek religion and philosophy : the god of the philosopher / Fritz-Gregor Herrmann -- Greek religion and art / T.H. Carpenter -- Gods of the silver screen : cinematic representations of myth and divinity / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
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