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Polytheism and Society at Athens

Contributors:: Robert Parker
Publisher:: Oxford University Press 2005
Subjects:: Polytheism
Athens (Greece)--Religion
Athens (Greece)--Social Life And Customs

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5Who Prays for Athens? Religion in Civic LifeA special treatment of...insteadsome particular aspects of public religion. It will treat first religious decisionU...Thechapter will then turn to the place of religion in the main public domains ofAthenian...

Athenian Religion: A History

Contributors:: Robert Parker
Publisher:: Clarendon Press 1997
Subjects:: Athens (Greece)--Religion
Greece--Religion

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...Three Studies, 11-13. On Athens as the trading capital of Greece...significant way. In traditionalGreek religion, the only groups within which...and 'à la carte' religion: Writing History, 113. Native...Lysistrata about the women of Athens in the opening lines...

Athenian Popular Religion

Contributors:: Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher:: University of North Carolina Press 1983
Subjects:: Athens (Greece)--Religion

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...03A3.24.See Mikalson, Religion in the Attic Demes. In addition...Salaminioi, 3-5. SeeMikalson, Religion in the Attic Demes;Solders...AthenianAgora, vol. 14: The Agora of Athens (Princeton, 1972U...seeThompson andWycherley, Agora of Athens, 83-90.37.See chapter...

Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives

Contributors:: Judith M. Barringer
Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher:: University of Texas Press 2005
Subjects:: Art, Greek--Greece--Athens
Art, Greek--Influence
Art, Classical--Greece--Athens
Art--Greece

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...and Literature in Fourth Century Athens.London. ——U...Potter and Patron in Classical Athens. London. Weil, R. 1976...Wilkins, J. 1990. [The Young of Athens: Religion and Society in Herakleidai...

Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War

Contributors:: Barry S. Strauss
Publisher:: Routledge 1993
Subjects:: Fathers And Sons--Greece--Athens--History
Literature And Society--Greece--Athens
Athens (Greece)--In Literature
Greek Literature--History And Criticism
Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
Fathers And Sons In Literature

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...Fourth-Century Historiography in Athens.” AJAH 1:129-144...00281990). “The Young of Athens: Religion and Society in the Herakleidai...Family Organization in Ancient Athens. A Study on the Interrelation...

The Dramatic Festivals of Athens

Contributors:: Arthur Pickard-Cambridge
John Gould
David Malcolm Lewis
Publisher:: Oxford University Press 1988 (2nd edition)
Subjects:: Theater--Greece--Athens--History
Greek Drama--History And Criticism
Athens (Greece)--Civilization

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...whole wasplainly favourable to Athens. The Isthmian guild repudiated...an appeal from the people of Athens, determined the dispute in a...fulsome praise of the services of Athens to cultureand religion and compliments to its τU...

The Story of Athens: A Record of the Life and Art of the City of the Violet Crown Read in Its Ruins and in the Lives of Great Athenians

Contributors:: Howard Crosby A. M. Butler
Publisher:: Century 1902
Subjects:: Athens (Greece)--History

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...out allmemory of the ancient religion of the Romans. But inAthens...throughout the Holy Land, Athens preserved her ancient religion,or what there was left of...teachings of SaintPaul. Still Athens did not escape the notice of...

Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens

Contributors:: Josiah Ober
Publisher:: Princeton University Press 2008
Subjects:: Democracy--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500
Political Participation--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500
Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government
Greece--Politics And Government--To 146 B.C

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...politics in fifth-century Athens. Berkeley: University of...AmericanSchool of Classical Studies at Athens.Parker, Robert. 1996. Athenian Religion: A history. Oxford: Clarendon...Polytheism and Society at Athens. Oxford and New York: OxfordUniversity...

Athens: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People

Contributors:: Oswyn Murray
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Publisher:: Routledge 2004
Subjects:: Athens (Greece)--History

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...authority. The Areopagus at Athens had the care of religion, but the Areopagites were not...in guarding the purity of the religion, in preserving to what it had...creeds. The more popular a religion, the more it seeks corporeal...

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A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life

Contributors:: William Stearns Davis
Publisher:: Biblo and Tannen 1960
Subjects:: Athens (Greece)--Social Life And Customs

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...TEMPLES AND GODS OF ATHENS.181. Certain Factors in Athenian Religion. — We have...side. A "Day in Athens "spent without taking...observe that the Greek religion is a religionof purely...breakeven down to the Athens of Plato. This explains...

Palladium (in Greek religion)

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...Palladium (pəlā´dēəm), in Greek religion, sacred image kept in the temple of Athena at Troy. It...took it when he fled Troy. But many cities, including Argos, Athens, and Luceria, owned such images, all of which came to be known......

Eros (in Greek religion and mythology)

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...Eros (ēr´ŏs, ĕr´–), in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love...dispensing the frenzies and agonies of love. At Thespiae and at Athens he was worshiped as a god of fertility. In Hellenistic and Roman......

Raphael Santi

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Segnatura (finished 1511); the two largest walls represent, respectively, the School of Athens, portraying the Greek philosophers, and the Triumph of Religion, also called Disputà. On the vault are The Flaying of Marsyas and The Temptation of......

Greece

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......primate is the archbishop of Athens, who recognizes the Ecumenical...main industrial centers are Athens, Thessaloníki, Piraiévs, Pátrai...Greek music, and Greek religion. See also the articles on the cities, e.g., Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and......

Sparta

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......titular leaders in battle and in religion. Some of these kings were...unlike the open forum methods of Athens), and every effort was...Wars, Sparta fought beside Athens, first at Thermopylae (480...the Persian Wars rivalry with Athens sharpened, and Athens grew......

Thebes (city of ancient Greece)

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......associations with Greek legend and religion (see Oedipus; the Seven against...it began its struggle with Athens to maintain its position in...motivated by hostility to Athens, sided (480–479 BC) with...city a balance to the power of Athens, saved it from destruction......

Athena

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Athena (păl´əs), in Greek religion and mythology, one of...guardian of cities, notably Athens, where the Parthenon was...concerned with fertility, and at Athens and Elis her worship was notably...was celebrated annually at Athens. It included athletic and......

Greek literature, ancient

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......from the song and dance in the ceremonies honoring Dionysus at Athens. In the 5th cent. BC tragedy was developed by three of the...the writing of the Greek Fathers of the Church is eloquent. Religion dominated the literature of the Byzantine Empire, and a vast......

Furies

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...Furies or Erinyes (ērĬn´ē-ēz), in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, three daughters of Mother Earth, conceived...the murder of his mother, she gave the Furies a grotto at Athens where they received sacrifices and libations, and became euphemistically......

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Hellenism

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......classical times. It usually means primarily the culture of Athens and the related cities during the Age of Pericles. The term...architecture; Greek art; Greek literature, ancient; Greek religion. See R. Warner, Eternal Greece (rev. ed. 1962); D......