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Religion and Society in Ancient Greece

Religion and Society in Ancient Greece

Millstone, James

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Ancient GreeceGeneral World History

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ISBN13: 9798235134508
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Religion in ancient Greece was not a compartmentalized sphere of life, nor a set of doctrines to which individuals privately assented. It was instead a pervasive, communal, and deeply social phenomenon woven into every layer of Greek experience. To speak of religion in the Greek world is to speak simultaneously of politics, family, economy, art, and identity. The Greeks did not conceive of a divide between sacred and secular; rather, the divine permeated the structures of the polis, the rhythms of the household, and the imagination of poets and philosophers. This book explores that interwoven reality, examining how religious belief, ritual practice, and mythic narrative shaped and were shaped by Greek society across the Archaic, Classical, and early Hellenistic periods.

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