Ebook: Civic rites: democracy and religion in ancient Athens
Author: Evans Nancy
- Tags: culte--religion grecque--Athènes (Grèce)--510 av. J.-C.--5e s. av. J.-C, Democracia--Grecia--Edad Antigua, Democracy, Democracy--Greece--Athens--Religious aspects--History--To 1500, Democracy--Religious aspects, Democratie, démocratie--Athènes (Grèce)--510 av. J.-C.--5e s. av. J.-C, Demokrati--historia--Grekland--Athen, Demokratie, Politics and government, Politieke aspecten, Religieuze aspecten, Religion, Religion and politics, Religion and politics--Greece--Athens, Religion och politik--historia--Grekland--A
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Athen;Athene;en;Athens (Greece);Αθήνα (Ελλάδα);Berkeley;Grecia;Greece;Religión griega;Athens
- Language: English
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Preface -- Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates -- Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy -- Athena : religion and the democratic polis -- Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena -- Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries -- Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality -- Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation -- Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy -- Epilogue / The City after Socrates.;"Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary's perspective on Athenian society. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes."--Back cover.
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