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Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_1_pretoc FinalProof page i 22.11.2006 11:20am A COMPANION TO GREEK RELIGION Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_1_pretoc FinalProof page ii 22.11.2006 11:20am BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD Thisseriesprovidessophisticatedandauthoritativeoverviewsofperiodsofancienthistory,genresof classicalliterature,andthemostimportantthemesinancientculture.Eachvolumecomprisesbetween twenty-fiveandfortyconciseessayswrittenbyindividualscholarswithintheirareaofspecialization.The essaysarewritteninaclear,provocative,andlivelymanner,designedforaninternationalaudienceof scholars,students,andgeneralreaders. 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Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,or transmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingor otherwise,exceptaspermittedbytheUKCopyright,Designs,andPatentsAct1988,withoutthe priorpermissionofthepublisher. Firstpublished2007byBlackwellPublishingLtd 1 2007 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData AcompaniontoGreekreligion/editedbyDanielOgden. p.cm.—(Blackwellcompanionstotheancientworld.Ancienthistory) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-1-4051-2054-8(hardcover:alk.paper) ISBN-10:1-4051-2054-1(hardcover:alk.paper)1.Greece–Religion.I.Ogden,Daniel. BL790.C662007 292.08–dc22 2006025008 AcataloguerecordforthistitleisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Setin10/12ptGalliard bySPiPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedandboundinSingapore byMarkonoPrintMediaPteLtd Thepublisher’spolicyistousepermanentpaperfrommillsthatoperateasustainableforestrypolicy, andwhichhasbeenmanufacturedfrompulpprocessedusingacid-freeandelementarychlorine-free practices.Furthermore,thepublisherensuresthatthetextpaperandcoverboardusedhavemet acceptableenvironmentalaccreditationstandards. Forfurtherinformationon BlackwellPublishing,visitourwebsite: www.blackwellpublishing.com Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_1_pretoc FinalProof page v 22.11.2006 11:20am In memoriam MICHAEL H. JAMESON who had kindly agreed to participate in this volume Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_2_toc FinalProof page vii 17.11.2006 7:37pm Contents List of Figures x Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xvii Note on Authors andTranslations xviii Abbreviations xix AncientAuthor Fragment Series xxi Introduction 1 Daniel Ogden Part I In the Background 19 1 Greek Religion and the AncientNear East 21 Scott B.Noegel Part II The Powers: The Gods and the Dead 39 2 OlympianGods,Olympian Pantheon 41 Ken Dowden 3 A Land Full ofGods:Nature Deities in GreekReligion 56 Jennifer Larson 4 Personification inGreekReligious Thought andPractice 71 Emma Stafford Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_2_toc FinalProof page viii 17.11.2006 7:37pm viii Contents 5 TheDead 86 D.Felton 6 Heroes and Hero-Cults 100 Gunnel Ekroth Part III Communicating with the Divine 115 7 Prayers andHymns 117 William D. Furley 8 GreekNormativeAnimal Sacrifice 132 Jan N. Bremmer 9 Divination 145 Pierre Bonnechere Part IV From Sacred Space to Sacred Time 161 10 A Day in the Life of a Greek Sanctuary 163 Beate Dignas 11 Purity and Pollution 178 AndreasBendlin 12 Festivals 190 Scott Scullion 13 Time and Greek Religion 204 James Davidson Part V Local Religious Systems 219 14 ‘‘FamousAthens, Divine Polis’’:The Religious System atAthens 221 Susan Deacy 15 TheReligious System atSparta 236 Nicolas Richer 16 TheReligious System atAlexandria 253 Françoise Dunand 17 TheReligious System in Arcadia 264 Madeleine Jost Part VI Social Organization, the Family, and Sex 281 18 Religion and Societyin Classical Greece 283 Charles W. HedrickJr. Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_2_toc FinalProof page ix 17.11.2006 7:37pm Contents ix 19 Women,Religion, andthe Home 297 Janett Morgan 20 ‘‘Something todo with Aphrodite’’: TaAphrodisia and the Sacred 311 Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Part VII Mysteries and Magic 325 21 Finding Dionysus 327 Susan GuettelCole 22 The Mysteriesof Demeter and Kore 342 Kevin Clinton 23 Magic inClassical and Hellenistic Greece 357 Matthew W.Dickie Part VIII Intersections: Greek Religion and... 371 24 Greek Religion and Literature 373 ThomasHarrison 25 Greek Religion and Philosophy: TheGod of the Philosopher 385 Fritz-Gregor Herrmann 26 Greek Religion and Art 398 T.H. Carpenter Part IX Epilogue 421 27 Godsofthe SilverScreen: CinematicRepresentations of Myth andDivinity 423 Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Bibliography 439 Index 477 Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_3_posttoc FinalProof page x 17.11.2006 4:53pm Figures 3.1 Thecave of Archedamus atVari,Attica 60 3.2 Achelous,Pan,andthreenymphs 66 4.1 TheMaenadEirene 73 4.2 Thetwo Nemeseisof Smyrna 84 7.1 A prosodionto Athene 121 7.2 Alkmene on the pyre prays toZeus 128 10.1 Planandsections of theCorinthian Asklepieion 167 10.2 Amphiaraus heals Archinos 171 14.1 Thebirthof Erichthonius 226 14.2 Planofthe Periclean Acropolis 228 15.1 Dokana 240 15.2 Themost important cult places atSparta 244 15.3 Themost important Lacedaemonian sanctuaries outside Sparta 245 15.4 Agamemnon and Cassandra (?) 251 22.1 Lakrateides Relief, Eleusis 348 22.2 Ninnion Tablet from Eleusis 349 22.3 Reliefhydria from Cumae 350 26.1 Athletes preparing towrestle 400 26.2 Athena Promachos 401 Ogden/CompaniontoGreekReligion 1405120541_3_posttoc FinalProof page xi 17.11.2006 4:53pm List of Figures xi 26.3 Bronze statuette of Athena Promachos 404 26.4 Reconstruction of the AthenaParthenos inNashville, Tennessee 406 26.5 Plan of the Acropolis 407 26.6 Apollo with a sword fighting a giant 408 26.7 Potters in their workshopand youths leading an animal tosacrifice 410 26.8 Preparation for the sacrifice ofa goatinthe presence of Apollo 411 26.9 Aftermath of a sacrificewith youths preparing toroast splanchnaoptai on analtar 412 26.10 Phineus raising his hands inprayeras he addresses the gods 413 26.11 Ecstaticworshipin the presence of two deities 414 26.12 Women worshiping atmask image of Dionysus 416 26.13 Hermes leading a woman toCharon 418 26.14 Sleep and Death lifting the body of a dead warrior 419