Honor thy gods : popular religion in Greek tragedy /
Основен автор: | Mikalson, Jon D., 1943- |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
1991.
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Съдържание:
- 1. Introduction.
- Mythology and popular religion
- The fragments of Greek tragedy
- Irony and interpretation
- The need to particularize
- Tragedy and cult prehistory
- 2. The Deities.
- The presence of a God
- Gods and Daimones
- Gods and heroes
- Divine intervention
- 3. Challenges to popular religious beliefs.
- Asylum
- Xenia
- Oaths and perjury
- Divination
- Death, burial, and afterlife
- Conclusion
- 4. The pious and the impious.
- Creon and Antigone
- Ajax and Odysseus
- Hippolytus
- Pentheus, Teiresias, and Cadmus
- Troy and Athens
- Polyphemus
- Conclusion
- 5. Piety and honor.
- Pieties and impieties
- Piety and justice
- Piety, folly, Sophrosyne, and Hybris
- Piety and Tiuń
- 6. The tragedians and popular religion.
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- Exodos.