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Honor thy gods : popular religion in Greek tragedy

Author: Jon D Mikalson
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1991.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Mikalson, Jon D., 1943-
Honor thy gods.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991
(OCoLC)551523800
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jon D Mikalson
ISBN: 0807820059 9780807820056 0807843482 9780807843482
OCLC Number: 23976833
Description: xv, 359 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction. --
Mythology and popular religion --
The fragments of Greek tragedy --
Irony and interpretation --
The need to particularize --
Tragedy and cult prehistory --
2. The Deities. --
The presence of a God --
Gods and Daimones --
Gods and heroes --
Divine intervention --
3. Challenges to popular religious beliefs. --
Asylum --
Xenia --
Oaths and perjury --
Divination --
Death, burial, and afterlife --
Conclusion --
4. The pious and the impious. --
Creon and Antigone --
Ajax and Odysseus --
Hippolytus --
Pentheus, Teiresias, and Cadmus --
Troy and Athens --
Polyphemus --
Conclusion --
5. Piety and honor. --
Pieties and impieties --
Piety and justice --
Piety, folly, Sophrosyne, and Hybris --
Piety and Tiuń --
6. The tragedians and popular religion. --
Aeschylus --
Sophocles --
Euripides --
Exodos.
Responsibility: Jon D. Mikalson.

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