Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms

• Other Authors: Carbon, Jan-Mathieu (Editor), Peels-Matthey, Saskia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Liège Presses universitaires de Liège 2018
• Series: Kernos suppléments
• Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; ritual practices; ancient Greece
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...