The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis. Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, 16-18 October 1992

Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae 8-0, XIV

176 pp, b/w figures, pb, in English.

An interesting collection of twelve papers from an international seminar held in Athens in 1992. Walter Burkert discusses Greek temple-builders, Fritz Graf considers space and ritual in the Greek polis, Patricia Butz looks at prohibitionary inscriptions and foreigners (Xenoi), Jan Bremner discusses the status and symbolic capital of the seer, H. Shapiro the cults of Solonian Athens and Nanno Marinatos the cult at Amnisos. Two papers in French.