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  • The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year
    Jon D. Mikalson / Jon DMikalson
    From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. The facts and conclusions that emerge from the author’s analysis...
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    54,17 €

  • Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars
    Jon D. Mikalson / Jon DMikalson
    The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480–79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced their religion at this pivotal moment in their ...
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    54,42 €

  • Honor Thy Gods
    Jon D. Mikalson / Jon DMikalson
    In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and examines how these playwrights portrayed, manipulated, and otherwise represented popular religion in their plays. He discusses the central role of honor in ancient Athenian piety and ...
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    60,58 €

  • Athenian Popular Religion
    Jon D. Mikalson / Jon DMikalson
    Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acted upon in everyday life. He uses evidence only from reliable, mostly contemporary sources such as the orators Lysias and Demosthenes, the historian Xenophon, and state decrees, sacre...
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    54,83 €