Overview

Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. She studies the role played at festivals by hereditary religious associations, showing how simple actions of undressing, veiling, bathing, and re-dressing a statue created a symbolic drama of abnormality, reversion to primeval time, and renewal for the Athenians. Sourvinou-Inwood also offers a reading of the ever controversial Parthenon frieze. Her book, brought to completion by Robert Parker, displays all the attention to detail and the concern for methodological rigour that have made her an iconic figure among students of Greek religion.

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Author:   Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane the late ,  Robert Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780199592074

ISBN 10:   0199592071
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   27 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I. Festivals and Gene: Reconstructions, Problematik, Methodologies II. Cultic Myths and Others: Aglauros, Erichthonios, Erechtheus, Praxithea 1: Reading cultic myths 2: Aglauros 3: Erechtheus, Erichthonios and others 4: Reconstructing cultic myths: a summary of the conclusions III. Reading a Festival Nexus: Plynteria and Kallynteria 5: Thargelion 25: Day One of the Plynteria 6: Aglauros, Aitia, Plynteria and Kallynteria 7: Thargelion 26: Day Two: the procession to Phaleron 8: Kallynteria: Thargelion 27 and 28: the return to the Acropolis and the reopening of the temple 9: Washing the new wool IV. Athena at the Palladion and the Palladion Myths V. Athena Polias, Panathenaia and the Peplos VI. City Dionysia and the Cult of Dionysos Eleuthereus VII. Gene and Athenian Festivals: Some Conclusions

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