Miasma - Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion

Zusatztext `[Parker's] substantial and important book has set new standards of perceptiveness and subtlety! quite apart from its sheer learning! in this difficult but rich and revealing field of study.'Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Robert Parker, a Bronx native, witnessed the city's upheaval during his formative years. After serving in the USAF, he pursued Aerospace Engineering at Fullerton College, contributing to the NASA Space Shuttle program for three decades. His debut novel, Blood Oaths: Sumus Quasi Mortui (We Are As Dead Men), merges his diverse experiences into a captivating tale. Blending history, action, and a Christian worldview, Parker offers readers a visceral journey through time and legacy. Klappentext This was the first work in English to treat the themes of pollution and purification in depth and has become a classic. It brings together the different categories of evidence while doing justice to the diversity and complexity of the phenomenon. Zusammenfassung Readers of Greek literary, historical, oratorical, ritual and even medical texts, are all liable to encounter ideas of pollution. This text seeks to describe and analyze this wide-ranging and complex concept.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Parker
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.1990
• EAN: 9780198147428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814742-8
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 217 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Ancient, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies