Savage Energies – Lessons of Myth & Ritual in Ancient Greece: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Burkert, Walter - 2001-08-09

University of Chicago Press, 2001. Hardcover. FINE/Fine. xiv, 110 pp. Faint rubbing to tips, pristine otherwise in like DJ.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press 9780226080857. 8vo. Cloth in dust jacket. In As New condition. Still in shrinkwrap. . As New. Cloth. 9780.

University of Chicago Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0226080854 . DJ spine sunned. ; 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 Arrephoria, 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 in the… Read More

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University of Chicago Press, 2001-04-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2001. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 152 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.