Miasma

Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion

By:

Robert Parker

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Clarendon Paperbacks

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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 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.

Author Biography:

Robert Parker is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. Dr. Parker is also the author of Athenian Religion: A History (OUP, 1996).

Release date NZ

March 22nd, 1990

Author

Robert Parker

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

432

Series

Clarendon Paperbacks

Dimensions

138x216x22

ISBN-13

9780198147428

Product ID

1857538

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