Greek religion : archaic and classical

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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 A Survey of Scholarship; 2 The Sources; 3 The Scope of the Study; I Prehistory and the Minoan-Mycenaean Age; 1 The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age; 2 Indo-European; 3 The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion; 3.1 A Historical Survey; 3.2 The State of the Sources; 3.3 The Cult Places; Caves; Peak Sanctuaries; Tree Sanctuaries; House Sanctuaries; Temples; Graves; 3.4 Rituals and Symbols; 3.5 The Minoan Deities; 3.6 The Mycenaean Gods and Linear B; 4 The 'Dark Age' and the Problem of Continuity; II Ritual and Sanctuary. 1 'Working Sacred Things': Animal Sacrifice1.1 Description and Interpretation; 1.2 Blood Rituals; 1.3 Fire Ritualso; 1.4 Animal and God; 2 Gift Offerings and Libation; 2.1 First Fruit Offerings; 2.2 Votive Offerings; 2.3 Libation; 3 Prayer; 4 Purification; 4.1 Function and Methods; 4.2 The Sacred and the Pure; 4.3 Death; 4.4 Purification by Bloodo; 4.5 Pharmakos; 5 The Sanctuary; 5.1 Temenos; 5.2 Altar; 5.3 Temple and Cult Image; 5.4 Anathemata; 6 Priests; 7 The Festival; 7.1 Pompe; 7.2 Agermos; 7.3 Dancing and Hymns; 7.4 Masks, Phalloi, Aischrologia; 7.5 Agon; 7.6 The Banquet of the Gods. 7.7 Sacred Marriage8 Ecstasy and Divination; 8.1 Enthousiasmos; 8.2 The Art of the Seer; 8.3 Oracles; III The Gods; 1 The Spell of Homer; 2 Individual Gods; 2.1 Zeus; 2.2 Hera; 2.3 Poseidon; 2.4 Athena; 2.5 Apollo; 2.6 Artemis; 2.7 Aphrodite; 2.8 Hermes; 2.9 Demeter; 2.10 Dionysos; 2.11 Hephaistos; 2.12 Ares; 3 The Remainder of the Pantheon; 3.1 Lesser Gods; 3.2 Societies of Gods; 3.3 Nature Deities; 3.4 Foreign Gods; 3.5 Daimon; 4 The Special Character of Greek Anthropomorphism; IV The Dead, Heroes, and Chthonic Gods; 1 Burial and the Cult of the Dead; 2 Afterlife Mythology. 3 Olympian and Chthonic4 The Heroes; 5 Figures who cross the Chthonic-Olympian Boundary; 5.1 Heracles; 5.2 The Dioskouroi; 5.3 Asklepios; V Polis and Polytheism; 1 Thought Patterns in Greek Polytheism; General Considerations; The Family of the Gods; Pairs of Gods; Old and Young; Dionysos; 2 The Rhythm of the Festivals; 2.1 Festival Calendars; 2.2 Year Ending and New Year; 2.3 Karneia; 2.4 Anthesteria; 2.5 Thesmophoria; 3 Social Functions of Cult; 3.1 Gods between Amorality and Law; 3.2 The Oath; 3.3 The Creation of Solidarity in the Playing and the Interplay of Roles; 3.4 Initiation. 3.5 Crisis Management4 Piety in the Mirror of Greek Language; 4.1 'Sacred'; 4-2 Theos; 4.3 Eusebeia; VI Mysteries and Asceticism; 1 Mystery Sanctuaries; 1.1 General Considerations; 1.2 Clan and Family Mysteries; 1.3 The Kabeiroi and SamothraceI; 1.4 Eleusis; 2 Bacchica and Orphica; 2.1 Bacchic Mysteries; 2.2 Bacchic Hopes for an Afterlife; 2.3 Orpheus and Pythagoras; 3 Bios; VII Philosophical Religion; 1 The New Foundation: Being and the Divine; 2 The Crisis: Sophists and Atheists; 3 The Deliverance: Cosmic Religion and Metaphysics; 3.1 Pre-Socratic Outlines; 3-2 Plato: The Good and the Soul