On Greek Religion (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, 60) by Parker, Robert

Cornell University Press, 2011. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6.12 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes appendices [5], Bibliography and an index. 325 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming abundance of physical remains. But genuinely revealing evidence does not often cluster coherently enough to create a vivid sense of the religious realities of a particular time and place. Amid a vast archipelago of scattered islets of information, only a few are of a size to be habitable."―from the Preface In… Read More

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