Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Volume I: Early Greek Religion
Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic
Reviews and Awards
Winner of the 2017 Runciman Award, The Anglo-Hellenic League
"The authors' own commitment both to the seriousness of their project and to the clarity of its presentation is commendable. â This exemplary desire to elucidate and contextualizeis evident throughout. Among the book's many solid discussions of individual works and passages the penultimate chapter on the gold tablets stands outas particularly strong and judicious, especially for its clarity about what it is trying to achieve and what the available evidence will support." -- Douglas Cairns, GNOMON
"Taken as a whole, this engaging and clearly written volume is a new study filled with thought-provoking discussions of the literary and epigraphic attestations of inner purity and pollution. In view of the recent theoretical developments (e.g. Cognitive Science of Religion) in the field of ancient Greek religion over the past two decades, its arrival is timely. This valuable volume shows how vital it is for those interested in ancient Greek religion to also consider its ethical framework." --Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Covering a wide range of sources, extending from the epic authors and the pre-Platonic philosophical tradition to theatrical plays (both tragedies and comedies) and Orphism, this first of a two-volume work offers a detailed and very well-argued thesis in support of the centrality of belief in ancient Greek religion... Andrej and Ivana Petrovic's work is not only a necessary but an essential reading for students of ancient Greek religion. For my part, I will be eagerly waiting for the second volume of this splendid work." -- Religious Studies Review