Athenian Myths and Festivals
Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia
Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane the late author Robert Parker editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:27th Jan '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. She studies the role played at festivals by hereditary religious associations, showing how simple actions of undressing, veiling, bathing, and re-dressing a statue created a symbolic drama of abnormality, reversion to primeval time, and renewal for the Athenians. Sourvinou-Inwood also offers a reading of the ever controversial Parthenon frieze. Her book, brought to completion by Robert Parker, displays all the attention to detail and the concern for methodological rigour that have made her an iconic figure among students of Greek religion.
ISBN: 9780199592074
Dimensions: 226mm x 149mm x 28mm
Weight: 608g
392 pages