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.
Description based on print version record.
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.