Civic rites : democracy and religion in ancient Athens /

Civic rites : democracy and religion in ancient Athens /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Evans, Nancy.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Description:	xvi, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500. Religion and politics -- Greece -- Athens. Democracy. Democracy -- Religious aspects. Politics and government Religion. Religion and politics. Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government. Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C. Athens (Greece) -- Religion. Greece. Greece -- Athens. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8008396

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ISBN:	9780520262027 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520262026 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520262034 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520262034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The City of Pericles and Socrates
1. Cleisthenes: The Family Curse behind Athenian Democracy
2. Athena: Religion and the Democratic Polis
3. Pericles: Empire and War in the City of Athena
4. Demeter: Civic Worship, Women's Rites, and the Eleusinian Mysteries
5. Alcibiades: Politics, Religion, and the Cult of Personality
6. Dionysus: Civic Rituals of Wine, Theater, and Transformation
7. Socrates: Impiety Trials in the Restored Democracy
Epilogue: The City after Socrates
Glossary of Terms
Suggested Further Readings by Chapter
Bibliography
Index