Miasma
€ 194,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780198147428 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Robert Parker |
| Editora | Oxford University Press |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 432 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,560 |
| Data de Publicação | 22/03/1990 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 183,87 |
| Imposto | € 11,03 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 194,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 1 unidade em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Anyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution. The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes. In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution'', or making war on account of it. Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life. Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification'' the path to felicity in the afterlife. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.