Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms
Kernos supplémentsÉditeur : Presses universitaires de Liège
Lieu d’édition : Liège
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 21 août 2023
Collection : Kernos suppléments
Année d’édition : 2018
Nombre de pages : 372
Présentation
Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest: purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law, impurity expressed as a substantive crime or as rhetorical slander. A key debate revolves around the ethical sense of purity and impurity: how early and widely was this notion applied; how did it complement concrete ritual practices of purification and abstention; in other words, in a perspective of continuity and change, how were the inner/mental and outer/corporeal dimensions of purity harmonised ? The present volume celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Robert Parker’s seminal work Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion. Analysing a wealth of documents-inscriptions, papyri, literature-both old and new, the authors reveal compelling case-studies, draw out innovative conclusions, and point in fruitful directions for future research. ISBN
Sommaire
Jan-Mathieu Carbon
AcknowledgmentsJan-Mathieu Carbon
Introduction. Probing the ‘Incubation Chamber’Concepts, Continuities, and Changes
Robert Parker
Miasma: Old and New ProblemsAngelos Chaniotis
Greek Purity in Context: The Long Life of a Ritual Concept or Defining the Cs of Continuity and ChangeSaskia Peels-Matthey
Moral Purity in the Athenian TheatreHomicide, Morality, and Society
Anne-Françoise Jaccottet
La pureté des tyrannicides ou quand la démocratie lave la souillureRituals, Behaviour, and Abstinence
Stella Georgoudi
Couper pour purifier ? Le chien et autres animaux, entre pratiques rituelles et récitsMarie-Claire Beaulieu
Θεῶν ἅγνισμα μέγιστον : la mer et la purification en Grèce ancienneIvana Petrovic et Andrej Petrovic
Purity of Body and Soul in the Cult of Athena Lindia: On the Eastern Background of Greek AbstentionsContacts and Boundaries, Demons and ‘Magic’
Athanassia Zografou
Être pur pour réussir : le conditionnement de l’efficacité rituelle dans les « papyrus magiques grecs »Miriam Blanco Cesteros et Eleni Chronopoulou
The Irresistible Attraction of Purity: Accusations of religious transgression in magical texts from Late AntiquityLe texte seul est utilisable sous licence Licence OpenEdition Books. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.