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_qpaperback
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100 1 _aParker, Robert,
_d1950-
_97477
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aMiasma :
_bpollution and purification in early Greek religion /
_cRobert Parker.
260 _aOxford :
_bClarendon Press,
_c1983.
300 _axviii, 413 pages ;
_c23 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _aPurification: 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 _a"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. 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 _aPurity, Ritual
_zGreece
_915909
651 0 _aGreece
_xReligion
_91173
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