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The most important book on Greek religion to appear in many years. This was the first work in English to treat the themes of pollution and purification in depth and has become a classic.

The most important book on Greek religion to appear in many years. -The Classical Outlook. This excellent study is not for literary students alone: any Hellenist, whatever his chosen field, is likely to find illumination in i. -The Classical World. It brings together the different categories of evidence while doing justice to the diversity and complexity of the phenomenon.

Home Browse Books Book details, Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek. Most of the commonly read Greek texts address "pollution. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of publication: Oxford. Publication year: 1983. Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. The pollution theme appears in tragedies, historical texts, and political oratory. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and Greeks underwent many small purifications in their everyday lives. Certain archaic religiousmovements even made "purification" the path to felicity in the afterlife.

Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution

Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life.

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T O T H E M EM ORY Pollution and. OF MY M O TH ER Purification in early Greek Religion

T O T H E M EM ORY Pollution and. OF MY M O TH ER Purification in early Greek Religion. 2 Miasma 3 Introduction hypothesis th a t describes the spiritual history of early Greece as ity would be in happy contrast to the am biguity7 which sur­ a transition ‘from sham e culture to guilt culture’. 5 Still in the rounds the concept of pollution in anthropological literature. sphere of values, a question arises about the relation of pollution T h.

Similar books and articles. Miasma Robert Parker: Miasma. Greek Religion M. P. Nilsson: A History of Greek Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949. Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. Pp. 316. Cloth, 15s. Net. M. Nilsson: The Minoan-Mycenean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion.

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Robert C. T. Parker, FBA (born 1950) is a British historian of the ancient world specialising in ancient Greek religion. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1996. Robert Parker was educated at St Paul's School, London and at New College, Oxford under Geoffrey de Ste Croix. Athenian Religion: A History. Polytheism and Society at Athens.

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