TY - BOOK AU - Zaidman,Louise Bruit AU - Schmitt Pantel,Pauline AU - Cartledge,Paul TI - Religion in the ancient Greek city SN - 9780521423571 AV - BL785 .Z3513 1994 U1 - ARCH YNDC 292.08 Z21R PY - 1992/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Cities and towns KW - Greece KW - Religion N1 - Translation of: La religion grecque; Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index; Author's preface to the English translation -- pt. I. Introduction : How should we study Greek civic religion? The necessity of cultural estrangement ; Some fundamental notions ; Sources of evidence -- pt. II. Cult-practices. Rituals ; Religious personnel ; Places of cult ; Rites of passage ; Settings of religious life ; Religion and political life ; The festival system : the Athenian case ; The Panhellenic cults -- pt. III. Systems for representing the divine. Myths and mythology ; A polytheistic religion ; Forms of imaginative projection -- pt. IV. Envoi. Concluding reflections -- Appendices. I: The classical Greek temple ; II: The monuments of the Athenian Akropolis ER -