Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary

By Erika Simon

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299091848
• ISBN13: 9780299091842
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"