On Greek religion /Robert Parker.
Parker, Robert, 1950-
On Greek religion /Robert Parker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations. - Townsend lectures/Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 60 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Why believe without revelation? : the evidences of Greek religion -- Religion without a church : religious authority in Greece -- Analyzing Greek gods -- The power and nature of heroes -- Killing, dining, communicating -- The experience of festivals -- The varieties of Greek religious experience.
Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrance into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. --from publisher description.
9780801461750
2010040747
Electronic Books.
BL790 / .O547 2011
On Greek religion /Robert Parker. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations. - Townsend lectures/Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 60 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Why believe without revelation? : the evidences of Greek religion -- Religion without a church : religious authority in Greece -- Analyzing Greek gods -- The power and nature of heroes -- Killing, dining, communicating -- The experience of festivals -- The varieties of Greek religious experience.
Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrance into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. --from publisher description.
9780801461750
2010040747
Electronic Books.
BL790 / .O547 2011