Personal Religion in the Ancient Greek World

A Cultural History
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-62883-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten

Much is known about the manifold ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices map onto the social and political structures of the ancient Greek polis. The way in which the individual served as the basic unit of ancient Greek religion, and the personal dimension of ancient Greek religion associated with it, is much less well understood. This book offers the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek personal religion since the major paradigm changes that affected the study of ancient Greek religion in recent years. An international cast of scholars explores ancient Greek personal religion in all its different facets. They do not treat the personal dimension of ancient Greek religion as an antipode of civic religion but rather as a complementary perspective that evolves within, alongside, and occasionally in opposition to the civic dimension of ancient Greek religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kindt, Julia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The individual, personal religion, and the city Julia Kindt; Part I. Contexts and Perspectives: 1. From anomaly to transgression: the individual and civic religious norms Jan Bremmer; 2. Personal religion and the religion of the oikos Lin Foxhall; 3. Magic as a form of personal religion Richard Gordon; 4. Philosophy and personal religion Gerd Van Riel; 5. Personal religious experience in theoric contexts James Collins II; 6. Personal religion and old comedy Robert Cowan; Part II. Beliefs and Practices: 7. Sacrifice Fred Naiden; 8. Dedications Tulsi Parikh; 9. Oracles and divination Julia Kindt; 10. Epiphany Georgia Petridou; 11. Prayer Daniel Hanigan; 12. Mystery cults Hans Beck; 13. Curse tablets, amulets, and spells Charlotte Spence; Part III. Individuals: 14. Herodotus Christopher Baron; 15. Xenophon Tanja Scheer; 16. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Barbara Graziosi and Linda McNulty Perez; 17. Pheidias Milette Gaifman; 18. The underworld painter Robin Osborne; 19. Plato Sol Tor; 20. Plutarch Rainer Hirsch-Luipold.

Über Autor(innen)

Kindt, Julia
JULIA KINDT (FAHA) is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Her books include The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures that Make Us Human (Cambridge, 2024), Revisiting Delphi (Cambridge, 2016), and Rethinking Greek Religion (Cambridge, 2012).