Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms

Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece...

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description Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest: purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law, impurity expressed as a substantive crime or as rhetorical slander. A key debate revolves around the ethical sense of purity and impurity: how early and widely was this notion applied; how did it complement concrete ritual practices of purification and abstention; in other words, in a perspective of continuity and change, how were the inner/mental and outer/corporeal dimensions of purity harmonised ? The present volume celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Robert Parker’s seminal work Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion. Analysing a wealth of documents-inscriptions, papyri, literature-both old and new, the authors reveal compelling case-studies, draw out innovative conclusions, and point in fruitful directions for future research. ISBN
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1136532024-04-02T13:59:00Z Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms Carbon, Jan-Mathieu Peels-Matthey, Saskia ritual practices ancient Greece thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest: purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law, impurity expressed as a substantive crime or as rhetorical slander. A key debate revolves around the ethical sense of purity and impurity: how early and widely was this notion applied; how did it complement concrete ritual practices of purification and abstention; in other words, in a perspective of continuity and change, how were the inner/mental and outer/corporeal dimensions of purity harmonised ? The present volume celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Robert Parker’s seminal work Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion. Analysing a wealth of documents-inscriptions, papyri, literature-both old and new, the authors reveal compelling case-studies, draw out innovative conclusions, and point in fruitful directions for future research. ISBN 2023-09-11T07:38:55Z 2023-09-11T07:38:55Z 2018 book ONIX_20230911_9782875623799_148 9782875623799 9782875621597 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113653 eng Kernos suppléments image/jpeg n/a https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782875623799/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/pulg/17936 Presses universitaires de Liège 10.4000/books.pulg.17936 10.4000/books.pulg.17936 2e1be080-04bf-49c1-ba08-e6934a18e43e 9782875623799 9782875621597 372 Liège open access
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Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms
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