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Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Volume I: Early Greek Religion
Was Ancient Greek religion really ‘mere ritualism’? Early Christians denounced the pagans for the disorderly plurality of their cults, and reduced Greek religion to ritual and idolatry; protestant theologians condemned the pagan ‘religion of form’ (with Catholicism as its historical heir). For a long time, scholars tended to conceptualize Greek religion as one in which belief did not matter, and religiosity had to do with observance of rituals and religious practices, rather than with worshipers’ inner investment. But what does it mean when Greek texts time and again speak of purity of mind, soul, and thoughts? This book takes a radical new look at the Ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of the individual worshipper as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers’ inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a book about the role of belief in ancient Greek religion. By exploring the Greek notions of inner purity and pollution from Hesiod to Plato, the significance of intrinsic, faith-based elements in Greek religious practices is revealed – thus providing the first history of the concepts of inner purity and pollution in early Greek religion.

Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion Volume I Early Greek Religion 1st Table of contents:

Part I. An Epic View
1. Hesiod on Moral Badness as Impurity
Part II. Inner Purity and Pollution in Pre-Platonic Philosophical Tradition
2. Pythagoras on Purity of Soul and Sacrificial Ritual
3. Heraclitus on Purification: Inner Purity and Sacrifice after Pythagoras
4. Empedocles on Inner Pollution and Purity: Release from Suffering, Prayer, and Mental Exercise
Part III. Inner Purity and Pollution in Sympotic Settings
5. Xenophanes on Good Thinking while Drinking
6. The Theognidea on Straight Minds and Moral Purity
Part IV. Inner Purity and Pollution on the Central Stage: The Evidence of Drama
7. The Tragic Outlook on Ritual: Preliminaries
8. Aeschylus on Mental Pollution: The Oresteia and the Suppliants
Oresteia, performed 458 bc
Suppliants, performed between 470 and 459 bc
9. Sophocles’ Sophrosyne, Unsound Thinking, and Pollution
10. Euripides on the Extremes of Purity and Pollution: Hippolytus, Orestes, Electra, and the Bacchae
Hippolytus, performed 428 bc
Orestes, performed in 408 bc
Electra, performed (The Date is Disputed) in 413, 420, or 419 bc
Bacchae, performed after Euripides’ Death, perhaps 405
11. Aristophanes’ ‘Pure Mind’
Frogs, performed 405 bc
Part V. A Different Kind of Inner Purity
12. Inner Purity and Pollution in the Beyond: The Evidence of the Gold Leaves
Conclusion: Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Inner Purity, Divine Scrutiny, and Belief
The Language of Inner Purity and Pollution
Seats and Qualifiers
Continuities: Early Concepts of Inner Purity and Pollution and Greek Sacred Regulations
Inner Purity and Pollution: Religious Categories or Metaphors?
Inner Purity from a Diachronic Perspective
Subsystems of Inner Purity on the Synchronic Axis
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Nominum et Rerum

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