Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece
Essays on Religion and Society

A collection of fourteen highly influential articles by Michael H. Jameson, an authority on the religion of the ancient Greek city-state.

Michael H. Jameson (Author), Allaire B. Stallsmith (Prepared for publication by), Paul Cartledge (Introduction by), Fritz Graf (Contributions by)

9780521661294, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 October 2014

398 pages, 35 b/w illus. 1 map
25.3 x 18 x 2.2 cm, 0.95 kg

This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection complements the original publications in two ways: firstly, it makes the articles more accessible; and secondly, the volume offers readers a unique opportunity to observe that over almost five decades of scholarship Jameson developed a distinctive method, a signature style, a particular perspective, a way of looking that could perhaps be fittingly called a 'Jamesonian approach' to the study of Greek religion. This approach, recognizable in each article individually, becomes unmistakable through the concentration of papers collected here. The particulars of the Jamesonian approach are insightfully discussed in the five introductory essays written for this volume by leading world authorities on polis religion.

Prefatory note
Preface Paul Cartledge, Irene Polinskaya and Allaire B. Stallsmith
General introduction Paul Cartledge
Complete bibliography of Michael H. Jameson
Part I. Gods and Heroes: Introduction Fritz Graf
1. The hero Echetlaeus
2. Perseus, the hero of Mykenai
3. Apollo Lykeios in Athens
4. The asexuality of Dionysus
Part II. Rites: Introduction Christopher Faraone
5. Sophocles, Antigone 1005–1022: an illustration
6. Sacrifice before battle
7. The ritual of the Athena Nike parapet
8. Theoxenia
Part III. Religion and Society: Introduction Robert Parker
9. Lambda, Labda, Labdakos
10. Sacrifice and animal husbandry in Classical Greece
Appendix to chapter 10
11. Religion in the Athenian democracy
12. The spectacular and the obscure in Greek religion
Part IV. Michael Jameson and the Study of Greek Religion: Introduction Jan Bremmer
13. Sacred space and the city: Greece and Bhaktapur.

Subject Areas: Worship, rites & ceremonies [HRLF], Ancient religions & mythologies [HRKP], Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]