Dietrich starts from the premises that beliefs and their associated rites are inherently conservative and that, even where populations change, they tend to do so gradually, creating fusions rather than wholesale disruptions in ritual practice. An understanding of classical Greek religion thus, necessarily, depends on appreciation of its forerunners in the Bronze Age; and they, in turn, on evidence from the better documented religions of the Middle East. Dietrich's four main chapters deal first with those eastern links; then with the old traditions of Minoan Crete; next with the interplay of pre-Greek Minoan and Greek Mycenaean cultures; and finally he attempts to bridge the commonly assumed divide between bronze-age and archaic Greece.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-13
9781904675310
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96476357
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Origins of Greek Religion
Author
B.C Dietrich
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Religious History
Publication Year
2004
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
215mm
Item Width
139mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
B.C Dietrich
Series Title
Bristol Phoenix Press Ignibus Paperbacks
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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