On Greek Religion

by Robert C.T. Parker

Book Overview

"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming abundance of physical remains. But genuinely revealing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477352
• ISBN13: 9780801477355
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher