Distributed by Astrom Editions. See record at WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849019970.

The role of religion in the early Greek polis. Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 16–18 October 1992

Edited by Robin Hägg

These twelve papers read at an international seminar in Athens deal with various aspects of the role of religion in the early Greek polis, based on the epigraphical, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are territorial myths and the mythical articulations with regard to the early polis, the Greek temple-builders, the distribution of offerings and rituals between graves and sanctuaries, the development of sacred and profane civic ideology in Athens, processions (pompai), verbal and ritual obscenity in women’s cults, prohibitionary inscriptions, the role of the seer, the Thesmophorion in central Athens, the cults in Solonian Athens, cults by the seashore and Dionysos at Argos.

Contents

Preface (p. 7)

Irad Malkin | The polis between myths of land and territory (pp. 9–19)
Walter Burkert | Greek temple builders: who, where and why? (pp. 21–29)
François de Polignac | Entre les dieux et les morts. Statut individual et rites collectifs dans la cite archaïque (pp. 31–40)
Sanne Houby-Nielsen | The archaeology of ideology in the Kerameikos: new interpretations of the “Opferinnen” (pp. 41–54)
Fritz Graf | Pompai in Greece. Some considerations about space and ritual in in the Greek polis (pp. 55–65)
Allaire Brumfield | Aporreta: verbal and ritual obscenity in the cults of ancient women (pp. 67–74)
Patricia A. Butz | Prohibitionary inscriptions, ξένοι, and the influence of the early Greek polis (pp. 75–95)
Jan N. Bremmer | The status and symbolic capital of the seer (pp. 97–109)
Kevin Clinton | The Thesmophorion in central Athens and the celebration of the Thesmophoria in Attica (pp. 111–125)
H.A. Shapiro | Cults of Solonian Athens (pp. 127–133)
Nanno Marinatos | Cult by the seashore: what happened at Amnisos? (pp. 135–139)
Marel Piérart | La mort de Dionysos à Argos (pp. 141–152)

Programme and participants of the Seminar (pp. 153–154)
Abbreviations (p. 155)
Indexes (pp. 157–176)

Bibliographical information

Robin Hägg (ed.), The role of religion in the early Greek polis. Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 16–18 October 1992 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 8°, 14), Stockholm 1996. ISSN 0081-9921. ISBN 978-91-7916-033-3.

Reviews

American Journal of Archaeology 102:4, 1998, 851-852 (Susan E. Alcock) https://doi.org/10.2307/506129
Arys. Antigüedad, religiones y sociedades 1, 1998, 345-348 (M. Valdés)
Classical Philology 93:3, 1998, 271-276 (Jonathan M. Hall) https://doi.org/10.1086/449397
The Classical Review 53:1, 2006 (Emma Stafford) https://doi.org/10.1093/cr/53.1.197
Kernos 12, 1999, 305-307 (Madeleine Jost) https://doi.org/10.4000/kernos.732