Acknowledgments

Jan-Mathieu Carbon

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1The incubation of this edited volume has been a relatively slow one, especially taking into account the normally speedy standards of publication for proceedings of the biennial conferences of the CIERGA (Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique)—often, as here, in the form of Kernos supplements. This editor shares much of the responsibility for this delay. The 13th conference of the CIERGA from which these proceedings are derived was organised in the 10th, 11th and 12th of October 2013 to honour the three fruitful decades of study that have followed the publication of Robert Parker’s seminal work Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion (1983; second, slightly revised edition in 1996). Primary work on the papers stopped in 2014-2015, but the essays have been continually updated and revised since.

2The resulting volume has now turned into one which can be offered as a token of gratitude to celebrate Robert’s official ‘retirement’—if it can really be called that. As his paper which inaugurates these proceedings notably testifies, this scholar not only continues to engage with most of the fundamental debates in the study of Greek religion, but also—to my mind, at least—always succeeds in admirably parsing and encapsulating these debates. On a personal level, as one of a multitude of students, I owe him an unfathomable debt of thanks; on a wider level, all of us who are working on Greek religion do too. Here’s to many more occasions for celebrating his brilliant acumen, his ceaseless enthusiasm, and his indefatigable caution.


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