Miasma

Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-19-814742-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks

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 we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in
ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in
detail.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft