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Loading... Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religionby Robert Parker
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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 internalaffairs 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 religiousmovements 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)292.2Religions Other Religions Classical religion (Greek and Roman religion) Theological Orientations and DoctrinesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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