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

• अन्य लेखक: Carbon, Jan-Mathieu (संपादक), Peels-Matthey, Saskia (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Liège Presses universitaires de Liège 2018
• श्रृंखला: Kernos suppléments
• विषय: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; ritual practices; ancient Greece
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...