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Greek Myths for Athenian Rituals: Religion and Politics in Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Sophocles’ Oedipus Coloneus

1992; Duke University; Volume: 33; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

0017-3916

André Lardinois,

Religion and Society Interactions

Andre Lardinois THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS have seen a renewed interest in the variety of local traditions in Greek religion, and studies on the religious practices of different parts of early Greece are appearing in record numbers.l For as Walter Burkert emphasizes, tribe, each locality and each city has its own tenaciously-defended tradition.2 At the same time, scholars have given serious attention to Panhellenism, a phenomenon that, since the eighth century B.C., had helped to obscure the variety in regional beliefs. The Greek poets, beginning with Homer and Hesiod, worked around local traditions and created