Somme de contributions analysant le couple pureté et impureté ainsi que les diverses interprétations religieuse, éthique, juridique et rituelle qui y sont attachées dans la Grèce antique. Dans la lignée des travaux initiés par Robert Parker, ces recherches se fondent sur l'étude d'inscriptions, de papyrus ou encore de textes littéraires. ©Electre 2024
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.
Paru le : 15/06/2018
Thématique : Histoire des religions du monde, Dictionnaires Mythologie Gréco-Romaine
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires de Liège
CIERGA
Collection(s) : Kernos, supplément
Contributeur(s) : Directeur de publication : Jan-Mathieu Carbon - Directeur de publication : Saskia Peels-Matthey
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-87562-159-7
EAN13 : 9782875621597
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 372
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 2.5 cm
Poids: 860 g
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