| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates -- Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy -- Athena : religion and the democratic polis -- Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena -- Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries -- Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality -- Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation -- Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy -- Epilogue / The City after Socrates. |
| Summary |
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary's perspective on Athenian society. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
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Democracy. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500.
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
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Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
| Subject |
Athens (Greece) -- Religion.
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Religion and politics -- Greece -- Athens.
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Religion and politics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evans, Nancy, 1963- Civic rites. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520262027 (DLC) 2009042190 (OCoLC)449860395 |
| ISBN |
9780520945487 (electronic book) |
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0520945484 (electronic book) |
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9780520262027 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520262026 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520262034 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520262034 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612556166 |
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