Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens: Religion and Politics During the Peloponnesian War

ISBN-13: 9780367872212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 316 str.

Alexander Rubel; Michael Vickers

Opis

Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of

Spis treści

Introduction

Impiety trials against philosophers and Sophists

The Plague, Pericles and the Peloponnesian War

Other prosecutions for impiety

The mutilation of the Herms and the profanation of the Mysteries: religious and political implications

Tradition and innovation: the new gods

Building for the gods: sacred architecture during the Peloponnesian War

The Arginusae trial

The trial of Socrates: an overview

O autorze

Professor Alexander Rubel is Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Iasi, Romania.