Scholars - greek religion Flashcards
Kindt argues there is no distinction between personal and…
civic religion. We see religious rites of all kinds occur in both contexts
Zaidman and Pantel suggest that impiety trials were a…
violent reaction of the civic community that felt its unity to be under threat since religion was an essential constituent to its identity
Bremer argues that the incurring of pollution and the purification that followed was…
important for maintaining religious and social norms and values in times when the legal process was still under development
Bruit-Zaidman suggests that religion did more than just put a divine gloss on civic life…
it impregnated each and every civic activity
Burket argues that being part of a procession offers participants a…
special status which is demonstrated with special clothing and also with garlands, things to carry etc
Burket suggests festivals allow work to be laid aside and daily roles to be dissolved and…
replaced with festival related roles. This contrast with normality allows celebration and for people to feel apart of a group and set apart from others
Burket argues that pollution is used to…
explain bad things happening
Sourvinou-Inwood suggests that the whole of Greek society and all its elements were…
linked to and defined by religious activity
Garland argues that the member of the household worshipped…
together, placed themselves under the protection of the same dieties, and regarded their fortunes as linked and independent
Dowden suggests that the oracular function is a unique way of…
crossing the divide between man and god and makes Apollo very special
Garland argues that a visit to Delphi was a journey to the earth’s navel in order to…
deepen one’s own knowledge and one’s self knowledge
Scott describes Olympia as the single, biggest gathering of…
people in the Greek world
Scott argues that competition was in itself an act of worship and that…
the real focus of the festival lay with the gods. He used evidence of the time and money invested in the temple and statue of Zeus
Robertson argues that the subject matter of the sculptures on the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, built while the…
league was still driving out Persians from Greek cities of Asia Minor, does seem chosen to illustrate Greek unity
Robertson suggest that the struggles of the gods against giants, and Greek against barbarians were meant to recall…
the defeat of the Persians
