LEADER 02225nam 2200349z- 450 001 9910743289803321 005 20230911 010 $a2-87562-379-6 035 $a(CKB)5580000000572039 035 $a(PPN)271944366 035 $a(oapen)doab113653 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000572039 100 $a20230906c2018uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPurity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms 210 $aLiège$cPresses universitaires de Liège$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aKernos suppléments 311 08$a2-87562-159-9 330 $aPurity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from Archaic and Classical Greece to the Roman Near East. Different declensions are readily manifest: purity could be defined as a traditional norm or by institutional law, impurity expressed as a substantive crime or as rhetorical slander. A key debate revolves around the ethical sense of purity and impurity: how early and widely was this notion applied; how did it complement concrete ritual practices of purification and abstention; in other words, in a perspective of continuity and change, how were the inner/mental and outer/corporeal dimensions of purity harmonised ? The present volume celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Robert Parker's seminal work Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion. Analysing a wealth of documents-inscriptions, papyri, literature-both old and new, the authors reveal compelling case-studies, draw out innovative conclusions, and point in fruitful directions for future research. ISBN 606 $aAncient history$2bicssc 610 $aancient Greece 610 $aritual practices 615 7$aAncient history 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910743289803321 996 $aPurity and purification in the ancient Greek world$92789997 997 $aUNINA