- EAN13
- 9782875623799
- Éditeur
- Presses Universitaires de Liège
- Date de publication
- 21/08/2023
- Collection
- Kernos suppléments
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms
Presses Universitaires de Liège
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Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient
Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both
complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in
this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical
Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest:
purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law,
impurity expressed as a substantive crime or as rhetorical slander. A key
debate revolves around the ethical sense of purity and impurity: how early and
widely was this notion applied; how did it complement concrete ritual
practices of purification and abstention; in other words, in a perspective of
continuity and change, how were the inner/mental and outer/corporeal
dimensions of purity harmonised ? The present volume celebrates the thirty-
fifth anniversary of Robert Parker’s seminal work Miasma: Pollution and
Purification in early Greek Religion. Analysing a wealth of documents-
inscriptions, papyri, literature-both old and new, the authors reveal
compelling case-studies, draw out innovative conclusions, and point in
fruitful directions for future research. ISBN
Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both
complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in
this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical
Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest:
purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law,
impurity expressed as a substantive crime or as rhetorical slander. A key
debate revolves around the ethical sense of purity and impurity: how early and
widely was this notion applied; how did it complement concrete ritual
practices of purification and abstention; in other words, in a perspective of
continuity and change, how were the inner/mental and outer/corporeal
dimensions of purity harmonised ? The present volume celebrates the thirty-
fifth anniversary of Robert Parker’s seminal work Miasma: Pollution and
Purification in early Greek Religion. Analysing a wealth of documents-
inscriptions, papyri, literature-both old and new, the authors reveal
compelling case-studies, draw out innovative conclusions, and point in
fruitful directions for future research. ISBN
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