Miasma : (Record no. 6562)
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| fixed length control field | 02760nam a2200313 i 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | GR-AtICH |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20230628154147.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | ta |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 230628s1983 enk b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0198148356 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0198147422 |
| Qualifying information | paperback |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 292.2 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Parker, Robert, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1950- |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7477 |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Miasma : |
| Remainder of title | pollution and purification in early Greek religion / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Robert Parker. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Oxford : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Clarendon Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1983. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii, 413 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Source | rdamedia |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Purification: a science of division -- Birth and death -- The works of Aphrodite -- The shedding of Blood -- Sacrilege -- Curses, family curses, and the structure of rights -- Disease, bewitchment, and purifiers -- Divine vengeance and disease -- Purifying the city -- Purity and salvation -- Some scenes from Tragedy -- Appendices: The Greek for taboo -- The Cyrene cathartic law -- Problems concerning 'Enter pure from...' requirements and sacred laws -- Animals and food -- The ritual status of the justified killer at Athens -- The ritual of purification from homicide -- Exile and purification of the killer in Greek myth -- Gods particularly concerned with purity. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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, cities intervene in the internal affairs of others to 'drive out the pollution', or make war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts. Any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life, and certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made 'purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife.<br/>This was th first wor in English to treat the themes of pollution and purification in depth and has become a classic. It brings together the different categories of evidence while doing justice to the diversity and complexity of the phenomenon. No single explanatory principle is adopted but, in contrast to the prevailing tendency in classical studies, the origin of beliefs about pollution is sought in the desire for order rather than in fear or anxiety." -- Back cover. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Purity, Ritual |
| Geographic subdivision | Greece |
| 9 (RLIN) | 15909 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Greece |
| General subdivision | Religion |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1173 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CYA Library | CYA Library | Main Collection | 28/06/2023 | 7269 | 292.2 PAR | 00000011401 | 28/06/2023 | 28/06/2023 | Book - 7-day loan |