Ian Rutherford

State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive study of theōroi - sacred delegates sent by Greek city-states to represent them at common sanctuaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1142g
• ISBN-13: 9781107038226
• ISBN-10: 1107038227
• Artikelnr.: 38613410

Autorenporträt

Ian Rutherford is Professor in the Classics Department, University of Reading. He works mostly on Greek poetry, Greek religion and relations between Greece and other cultures: chiefly the Hittites and Egypt. For fifteen years he has published a great deal on 'pilgrimage' in the ancient world (e.g. Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, co-edited with Jas Elsner, 2005) with a related interest in travelling poets (Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture, co-edited with Richard Hunter, 2009). He has also published a full commentary on Pindar's Paeans (2001) and has another volume forthcoming on Hittite and Greek religion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Approaches to the
ri
: preliminary definitions and issues; 2. Evidence; 3. An historical overview; 4. Festival the
ri
; 5. Festival announcement and truce; 6. Oracles; 7. Conveying offerings; 8. The
roi as magistrates; 9. The
ri
and viewing; 10. Participants; 11. The journey; 12. Performances at the sanctuary; 13. Civic the
ri
: two case studies; 14. The theoric chorus; 15. Politics and diplomacy; 16. Hellenism, panhellenism and common sanctuaries; 17. Theoric networks over space and time; 18. The case of Athens; 19. Philosophy and the
ri
; 20. The
ri
in Greek imagination; 21. Epilogue. The end of the
ri
.