Miasma : Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion

Name: Miasma
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198147428
Price: 23600 KES
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ISBN: 9780198147428

by Robert Parker

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Format 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: Ancient Greece Ancient (Classical) Greek Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Ancient religions & mythologies Indigenous peoples in the Americas: religions, belief systems, cultural worldviews and spiritual beliefs

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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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