Description: We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual.For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.
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EAN: 9780226100432
UPC: 9780226100432
ISBN: 9780226100432
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Book Title: Savage Energies - Lessons of Myth and Ritual in An
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Name: Savage Energies : Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Ancient / Greece, Folklore & Mythology, History, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.3 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6.5 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Author: Walter Burkert
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
