Miasma : Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN-10
0198147422
ISBN-13
9780198147428
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 22nd, 1990
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.50 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalAncient religions & mythologies
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Readers of Greek literary, historical, oratorical, ritual and even medical texts, are all liable to encounter ideas of pollution. This text seeks to describe and analyze this wide-ranging and complex concept.
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. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution'', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification'' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.
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