Civic rites : democracy and religion in ancient Athens / Nancy Evans.

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Evans, Nancy, 1963- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.Description: xvi, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type:

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9780520262027
0520262026
9780520262034
0520262034

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938.505

Contents:

Preface -- Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates -- Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy -- Athena : religion and the democratic polis -- Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena -- Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries -- Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality -- Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation -- Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy -- Epilogue / The City after Socrates.

Summary: "Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary's perspective on Athenian society less distorted by modern expectations. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes."-- Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary's perspective on Athenian society less distorted by modern expectations. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes."-- Publisher's description.