Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

About the author

Esther Eidinow is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham. She has a particular interest in ancient Greek religion and magic. Her publications include Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (2007, revised edition 2013), Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (2011) and Envy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Ancient Athens (2015). She has co-edited (with Julia Kindt) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015).Julia Kindt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Her publications include Rethinking Greek Religion (Cambridge, 2012) and Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2016). She has also co-edited (with Esther Eidinow) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015). She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ancient History and a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Religion.Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and of the British Academy. His work ranges widely over Greek history, archaeology and art history. His most recent books are Athens and Athenian Democracy (Cambridge, 2010), The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (Cambridge, 2011) and Greek History: The Basics (2014).

Product details

• Assisted by: Esther Eidinow (Editor), Julia Kindt (Editor), Kindt Julia (Editor), Robin Osborne (Editor), Osborne Robin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2020
• EAN: 9781316607503
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60750-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Illustrations: 16 b/w illus., Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Orthodox & Oriental Churches