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Title: MIASMA
POLLUTION AND PURIFICATION IN EARLY GREEK RELIGION
By: Robert Parker
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0198147422
ISBN 13: 9780198147428
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 March, 1990
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Pages: 432
Description: 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.
Synopsis: Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to 'drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made 'purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Returns: Returnable
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