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Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece Hardcover - 2001
by Walter Burkert; Peter Bing (Translator)
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The proliferation of theses and hypotheses, of reconstructions and constructions on the subject of the origin of tragedy leads to reflection on a basic problem of philological statements.
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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.
For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrhephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual--in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there--and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth and past crime in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties among violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; several well-known myths, often retold in poetry, that refer to religious festivals; and how failed political propaganda about the miraculous birth of a king entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars. With Savage Energies, Burkert convincingly shows how the lessons of myth and ritual interacted to construct--and reconstruct--classical Greek society. Classicists, historians of religion, and mythologists should all benefit from his insights.Details
- Title Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
- Author Walter Burkert; Peter Bing (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 152
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date April 1, 2001
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780226080857 / 0226080854
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.3 x 0.63 in (23.67 x 16.00 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Cultural Region: Mediterranean
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Greek, Rites and ceremonies - Greece
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00046717
- Dewey Decimal Code 292.08
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2001, Page 12
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