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 marshalling 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.
- ISBN10 0299091805
- ISBN13 9780299091804
- Publish Date February 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English