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.

Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

History

Simon, Erika

Ancient Civilizations

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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.

University of Wisconsin Press

Product Description 
Originally published in Germany fifty years ago, 
The Gods of the Greeks has remained an enduring work. Influential scholar Erika Simon was one of the first to emphasize the importance of analyzing visual culture alongside literature to better understand how ancient Greeks perceived their gods. Giving due consideration to cult ritual and the phenomenon of genealogical relationships between mortals and immortals, this pioneering volume remains one of the few to approach the Greek gods from an archaeological perspective. From Zeus to Hermes, each of the major deities is considered in turn, with Simon&;s insights on their nature and attributes guiding the reader to a fuller understanding of how their followers perceived and worshipped them in the ancient world.\nThis careful and fluid translation finally makes Simon&;s landmark edition accessible to English-language readers. With an abundance of beautiful illustrations, the book examines portrayals of the thirteen major gods in art over the course of two millennia. Scholars who study the lives and practices of those living in ancient Greece will value this newest contribution. 
 Review 
"Decades after its initial publication in German, Erika Simon's magisterial study of the Olympian gods is still a basic source for Greek religion in all its manifestations. Now thanks to this elegant translation, English readers will have the opportunity to delve deeply into the archaeological and textual sources which inform our understanding of these ageless divinities."--Jenifer Neils, American School of Classical Studies at Athens\n"Shows an impressive mastery of the archaeological and poetic documents from Homer and Hesiod to Pindar and Attic tragedy."-- 
Classical Journal 
 About the Author 
Erika Simon (1927&;2019) was professor emeritus of classical archaeology at the University of W&#252;rzburg. She published hundreds of articles and reviews and almost two dozen books, including 
Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary. 
Jakob Zeyl is a former professor of classics and assistant dean of arts and sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. 
Alan Shapiro is the Academy Professor and W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and the author of 
The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece and 
Worshipping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens.

The Gods of the Greeks (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Arts & Photography

Chicago Distribution Center

Ancient Theatre [hardcover] Simon, Erika [Jan 01, 1982]

Ancient Theatre

METHUEN

Language Notes\nText: English, German (translation)

The Ancient Theatre (University Paperbacks, 766) (English and German Edition)

Europe

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Geburt der Aphrodite" verfügbar.

Die Geburt der Aphrodite (German Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Walter de Gruyter

The author has added a third volume to her Selected Works I and II (originally published 1998 by Zabern Verlag.) It contains 20 contributions on Greek art ranging from the Archaic to Roman times and encompasses five topics: grave art, metal art, theater, religion, and mythology. Almost all contributions have emerged over the last decade. Criteria for the selections were, among other things, the difficulty in identifying certain publications and the importance of the artwork on science, such as in the case of the "Stele from Taman" and the "Great Eleusinian relief." Well-known pieces such as the "Drunken Old Man" in Munich and the Crater in Talos Ruvo receive new interpretations. Little-known works such as the Crater of Asteas and a selection of bronzes from Jerusalem are explained in detail. The conclusion is made up of the author's bibliography since 1998. German text. Contents: ANTIKE GRABKUNST 1. Stele eines daunischen Kriegers in Kioto 2. Zur Stele von Taman im Pushkin-Museum ANTIKE METALLKUNST 3. Eine spatgeometrische bootische Bronzefibel im Martin-von-Wagner-Museum 4. Die Waffen von Arkades: Ausrustung fur die Pyrrhiche 5. Drei goldene Gersten-Ahren 6. Hellenistischer Fulcrum-Beschlag: Buste des Paris 7. Ein Zeichen des Zodiacus ANTIKES THEATER 8. Ein neuer signierter Kelchkrater des Asteas 9. Schauspieler mit Silensmaske ANTIKE RELIGION 10. Archaologisches zu Spende und Gebet in Griechenland und Rom 11. Neues zum grossen Relief von Eleusis 12. Kourotrophoi MYTHOLOGIE 13. Achilleus in der antiken Kunst 14. Embryo im Schoss der Aphrodite 15. Ino-Leukothea 16. Kephalos 17. Medea in der antiken Kunst: Magierin - Mutter - Gottin 18. Odipus als mythische Personlichkeit im Bewusstsein der Antike 19. Philonis 20. Talos und der Stier des Zodiakos

Ausgewählte Schriften (German Edition)

Harrassowitz Verlag

A collection of selected writings by one of the foremost art historians of Classical Greece and Rome. Articles in this volume deal with ancient goddesses, mythological figures, Nemesis myths, Attic pottery, Greek and Roman religion, Late Hellenistic architectural sculpture in Etruria and Rome, Homer's apotheosis, traditions of antiquity in the 18th and 19th century, and art history. German text.

Ausgewählte Schriften: Band IV (German Edition)

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Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

The Gods of the Greeks (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Ancient Theatre

The Ancient Theatre (University Paperbacks, 766) (English and German Edition)

Die Geburt der Aphrodite (German Edition)

Ausgewählte Schriften (German Edition)

Ausgewählte Schriften: Band IV (German Edition)