Athenian Myths and Festivals: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia

by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. She studies the role played at festivals by hereditary religious associations, showing how simple actions of undressing, veiling, bathing, and re-dressing a statue created a symbolic drama of abnormality, reversion to primeval time, and renewal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199592071
• ISBN13: 9780199592074
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.7"