Athenian myths and festivals : Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia

by: Sourvinou-Inwood, Chr. Parker, R.

Athenian Myths and Festivals
Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia
Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane the late
Edited by Robert Parker
The last work by one of the great authorities on the practices of ancient Athenian religion
Includes topics, such as the Parthenon frieze, which are of wide interest
Reconstructs several of the important Athenian festivals, to underpin the argument

Description
Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. She studies the role played at festivals by hereditary religious associations, showing how simple actions of undressing, veiling, bathing, and re-dressing a statue created a symbolic drama of abnormality, reversion to primeval time, and renewal for the Athenians. Sourvinou-Inwood also offers a reading of the ever controversial Parthenon frieze. Her book, brought to completion by Robert Parker, displays all the attention to detail and the concern for methodological rigour that have made her an iconic figure among students of Greek religion.

Table of Contents
I. Festivals and Gene: Reconstructions, Problematik, Methodologies
II. Cultic Myths and Others: Aglauros, Erichthonios, Erechtheus, Praxithea
1:Reading cultic myths
2:Aglauros
3:Erechtheus, Erichthonios and others
4:Reconstructing cultic myths: a summary of the conclusions
III. Reading a Festival Nexus: Plynteria and Kallynteria
5:Thargelion 25: Day One of the Plynteria
6:Aglauros, Aitia, Plynteria and Kallynteria
7:Thargelion 26: Day Two: the procession to Phaleron
8:Kallynteria: Thargelion 27 and 28: the return to the Acropolis and the reopening of the temple
9:Washing the new wool
IV. Athena at the Palladion and the Palladion Myths
V. Athena Polias, Panathenaia and the Peplos
VI. City Dionysia and the Cult of Dionysos Eleuthereus
VII. Gene and Athenian Festivals: Some Conclusions

Athenian myths and festivals : Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia

by: Sourvinou-Inwood, Chr. Parker, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780199592074 / 978-0-19-959207-4
• ISBN-03: 0199592071 / 0-19-959207-1
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011