Savage Energies : Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

by: Burkert, W.

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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Glenn W. Most
1. Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual
2. The Legend of Kekrops?s Daughters and the Arrhephoria: From Initiation Ritual to Panathenaic Festival
3. Jason, Hypsipyle, and New Fire at Lemnos: A Study in Myth and Ritual
4. Buzyges and Palladion: Violence and the Courts in Ancient Greek Ritual
5. Demaratos, Astrabakos, and Herakles: Kingship, Myth, and Politics at the Time of the Persian Wars

Savage Energies : Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

by: Burkert, W.

• ISBN-13: 9780226100432 / 978-0-226-10043-2
• ISBN-03: 022610043X / 0-226-10043-X
• The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013

Price: 33,00 EURO

1 copy in stock