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RETHINKING GREEK RELIGION Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greekcity?Withquestionssuchasthese,currentscholarshipaimsto demonstratethewaysinwhichreligionmapsontothesocio-political structuresoftheGreekpolis(‘polisreligion’).InthisbookDrKindt exploresamorecomprehensiveconceptionofancientGreekreligion beyondthistraditionalparadigm.Comparativeinmethodandout- look, the book invites its readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journeytouchinguponsuchdiversetopicsasreligiousbelief,personal religion,magicandtheology.Specificexamplesincludethetransfor- mationoftyrantpropertyintoritualobjects,theculturalpracticeof setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make lovetoPraxiteles’famousstatueofAphrodite.Thebookwillbevalu- ableforallstudentsandscholarsseekingtounderstandthecomplex phenomenonofancientGreekreligion. julia kindt isSeniorLecturerintheDepartmentofClassicsand AncientHistoryattheUniversityofSydney. RETHINKING GREEK RELIGION JULIA KINDT cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521127738 (cid:2)C JuliaKindt2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Kindt,Julia,1975– RethinkingGreekreligion/JuliaKindt. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-11092-1(hardback)–isbn978-0-521-12773-8(paperback) 1.Greece–Religion. I.Title. bl783.k565 2012 292.08–dc23 2012013652 isbn978-0-521-11092-1Hardback isbn978-0-521-12773-8Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForPaulandDaniel Contents Listoffigures pageviii Acknowledgements x Listofabbreviations xii Introduction 1 1 Beyondthepolis:rethinkingGreekreligion 12 2 Parmeniscus’journey:tracingreligiousvisualityinword andwood 36 3 Ontyrantpropertyturnedritualobject:politicalpower andsacredsymbolsinancientGreeceandinsocial anthropology 55 4 Rethinkingboundaries:theplaceofmagicinthereligious cultureofancientGreece 90 5 The‘local’andthe‘universal’reconsidered:Olympia, dedicationsandthereligiouscultureofancientGreece 123 6 ‘Thesexappealoftheinorganic’:seeing,touchingand knowingthedivineduringtheSecondSophistic 155 Conclusion 190 Bibliography 195 Index 232 vii Figures Fig.1 Artist’simpressionofthesanctuaryofZeusatOlympia (theMetroonandthetreasuries),afterAdleretal.1892, pl.130. page132 Fig.2 ModeloftheareabetweenthetempleofZeusandthe BouleuterionatOlympia.CourtesyoftheDeutsches Archa¨ologischesInstitutAthenD-DAI-ATH-1968/802 (G.Hellner).Allrightsreserved. 133 Fig.3 HelmetdedicatedbyMiltiades,latesixthcenturybc. CourtesyoftheDeutschesArcha¨ologischesInstitut AthenD-DAI-ATH-Olympia3061(H.-V.Herrmann). Olympia,ArchaeologicalMuseum,inv.no.B2600.All rightsreserved. 137 Fig.4 Zeuswiththunderbolt.CourtesyoftheDeutsches Archa¨ologischesInstitutAthenD-DAI-ATH-Olympia 5540(G.Hellner).Olympia,ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv.no.B5500.Allrightsreserved. 142 Fig.5 ZeusandGanymede,ca.470bc.Courtesyofthe DeutschesArcha¨ologischesInstitutAthen D-DAI-ATH-Olympia2761(H.-V.Herrmann). Olympia,ArchaeologicalMuseum,inv.no.T2,Tc 1049.Allrightsreserved. 143 Fig.6 Figurineofanathlete,firsthalfofthefifthcenturybc. CourtesyoftheDeutschesArcha¨ologischesInstitut AthenD-DAI-ATH-Olympia810(H.Wagner). Olympia,ArchaeologicalMuseum,inv.no.B26.All rightsreserved. 146 Fig.7 Headofawrestler,fourthcenturybc.Courtesyofthe DeutschesArcha¨ologischesInstitutAthen D-DAI-ATH-HEGE495(W.Hege).Olympia, viii
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