Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society
Allaire B. Stallsmith
Language: English
Pages: 398
ISBN: 0521661293
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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.
contributions by Fritz Graf. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-521-66129-4 (hardback) 1. Greek prose literature – History and criticism. 2. Greece – Religion. I. Cartledge, Paul. II. Graf, Fritz. III. Title. PA3257.J36 2014 292.08 – dc23 2014024303 ISBN 978-0-521-66129-4 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not
Τίρυνθος” (Archaic Inscriptions from Tiryns), (with N. Verdelis and I. Papachristodoulou) ArchEph 150–205. 1976: “The Southern Argolid: The Setting for Historical and Cultural Studies,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 268: 74–91. 1976: “A Greek Countryside: Reports from the Argolid Exploration Project,” Expedition 19: 2–4. 1976: “The Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” Athenaeum 54: 441–60. 1977–8: “Agriculture and Slavery in Classical Athens,” CJ 73: 122–45. ∗ 1980: “Apollo Lykeios in Athens,”
207 believes that the astoi here refer to both citizen thetes and metoikoi while the xenoi are foreign mercenaries, chiefly barbarians. The references he cites do not, to my mind, support his view of astoi as a “quasi-technical term” in this sense. See also D. Whitehead, The Ideology of the Athenian Metic, PCPhS, Supp. 4, 1977, 60–1. Thuc. 2.13.8, 5.84.1. J. K. Anderson, Ancient Greek Horsemanship, Berkeley 1961, 131. Clerc 1893, 57–8. IG i3 1192, 158, Bradeen 1974, 22 (Decelean war), Bradeen
and the demarchoi, are not comparable. The former are purely military and would possess a purely military list, whereas the demarchoi are in no sense military and their rolls are used for much more than military service. Why were the katalogoi of cavalry and hoplites, the equivalent of the toxarchoi’s lists, not used?24 Why were the military commanders, who mobilized their troops by means of the katalogoi, or the paymasters (lines 8–9, involved only in case of failure to pay) not required to
Stengel, Opferbr¨auche der Griechen, Leipzig and Berlin 1910, 92–102, 123–35 (who, however, uses illustrations of widely different dates and origins), and of L. Ziehen, “Sphagia,” RE IIIA, 1929, 1670, that σφάζειν refers to piercing, not cutting. Stengel 1910a, 92. For the language of sacrifice, see J. Rudhardt, Notions fondamentales de la pens´ee religieuse et actes constitutifs du culte dans la Gr`ece classique, Geneva 1958, and J. Casabona, Recherches sur le vocabulaire des sacrifices en grec