| Author/Contributor(s): | Simon, Erika |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Date: | 04/25/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.