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Evans, Nancy.

Civic rights democracy and religion in ancient Athens / [electronic resource] : Nancy Evans. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 272 p.) : ill., maps.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction / The City of Pericles and Socrates -- Cleisthenes : the family curse behind Athenian democracy -- Athena : religion and the democratic polis -- Pericles : empire and war in the city of Athena -- Demeter : civic worship, women's rites, and the Eleusinian mysteries -- Alcibiades : politics, religion, and the cult of personality -- Dionysus : civic rituals of wine, theater, and transformation -- Socrates : impiety trials in the restored democracy -- Epilogue / The City after Socrates.

ISBN: 9780520945487 (electronic bk.) 0520945484 (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democracy--History--Greece--Athens--To 1500.
Democracy--Religious aspects--History--Greece--Athens--To 1500.
Religion and politics--Greece--Athens.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.
Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
Athens (Greece)--Religion.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JC75.D36 / E83 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 938/.505