The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon sets out here to explicate those complex and often obscure festivals. By careful marshaling of a variety of proofs from literary, historical, and archaeological sources, she is able to justify some startling conclusions and achieve a comprehensive and truly original synthesis that clarifies, as never before, the probable origins and meanings of the Attic cults.
Erika Simon is professor of classical archaeology at the University of Würzburg. A distinguished iconographer and scholar, she has published widely on Greek and Roman art, history, and religion.
- Autor: Erika Simon
- Kategoria: historia
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9780299091842
- Data wydania: 2002-01-01
- Liczba stron: 180
- Ocena: 5,0
- Wydawnictwo: UW Press
