wyszukanych pozycji: 11
New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society
ISBN: 9789004319189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Jon D. Mikalson offers for classical and Hellenistic Athens a study of the terminology and contexts of praises of religious actions and artefacts and an investigation of the various authorities in religious activities. The terms of approbation apply to priests, priestesses, and lay individuals in various capacities as well as to sacrifices, dedications, and sanctuaries. From these a new esthetic of Greek religion emerges as well as a new social aspect of public religious practices. The authorities include oracles, traditional customs, laws, and decrees, and their hierarchy and interaction are...
Jon D. Mikalson offers for classical and Hellenistic Athens a study of the terminology and contexts of praises of religious actions and artefacts and ...
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915,41 zł |
Athenian Popular Religion
ISBN: 9780807841945 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acted upon in everyday life. He uses evidence only from reliable, mostly contemporary sources such as the orators Lysias and Demosthenes, the historian Xenophon, and state decrees, sacred laws, religious dedications, and epitaphs.
"This is in no sense a general history of Athenian religion," Mikalson writes, "even within the narrow historical boundaries set. It is rather an investigation of what... Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religiou...
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233,91 zł |
A Slightly Hagiographic History of Classics at the University of Virginia: From 1825 to 1970
ISBN: 9781548461669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,80 zł |
Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199577835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jon D. Mikalson examines how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time - practices such as sacrifice, prayer, dedications, and divination. The chief concepts involved are those of piety and impiety, and after a thorough analysis of the philosophical texts Mikalson offers a refined definition of Greek piety, dividing it into its two constituent elements of proper respect' for the gods and religious correctness'. He concludes with a demonstration of the...
Jon D. Mikalson examines how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components ...
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685,87 zł |
The Essential Isocrates
ISBN: 9781477325520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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182,60 zł |
The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year
ISBN: 9780691617572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. The facts and conclusions that emerge from the author's analysis correct some earlier assumptions. He brings to light new information concerning the meeting days of the Athenian Assembly and the Council, and establishes the days of the monthly festivals. Annual festivals... From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian fest... |
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192,20 zł |
Religion in Hellenistic Athens: Volume 29
ISBN: 9780520210233 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era. Drawing from epigraphical, historical, literary, and archaeological sources, Mikalson traces the religious cults and beliefs of Athenians from the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. to the devastation of Athens by Sulla in 86 B.C.,...
Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the ci...
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427,94 zł |
Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy
ISBN: 9780807843482 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and examines how these playwrights portrayed, manipulated, and otherwise represented popular religion in their plays. He discusses the central role of honor in ancient Athenian piety and shows that the values of popular piety are not only reflected but also reaffirmed in tragedies.
Mikalson begins by examining what tragic characters and choruses have to say about the nature of the gods... In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of ...
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261,43 zł |
Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars
ISBN: 9780807872888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced their religion at this pivotal moment in their history.
In the period of the invasions and the years immediately after, the Greeks--internationally, state by state, and sometimes individually--turned to their deities, using religious practices to... The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the int...
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233,91 zł |
The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year
ISBN: 9780691644691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. The facts and conclusions that emerge from the author's analysis correct some earlier assumptions. He brings to light new information concerning the meeting days of the Athenian Assembly and the Council, and establishes the days of the monthly festivals. Annual festivals... From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian fest... |
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604,18 zł |
Ancient Greek Religion
ISBN: 9781119565628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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246,84 zł |