The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals: A Study in Mistrust
This article examines the role of mistrust – especially in constructions of purity, impurity, and purification – in ancient Greek religion. It begins by examining so-called scapegoat or pharmakos rituals, in which an individual was expelled from the city, apparently as a purificatory offering to the...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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2022
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| Στο/Στη: |
Numen
Έτος: 2022, Τόμος: 69, Τεύχος: 5/6, Σελίδες: 489-516 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Ελλάδα (Αρχαιότητα, μοτίβο) (Αρχαιότητα)
/ Τελετή <μοτίβο>
/ Θυσία (μοτίβο) (Θρησκεία)
/ Αποδιοπομπαίος τράγος
/ Δυσπιστία
/ Ανασφάλεια
/ Ιεροτελεστία εξαγνισμού
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AD Κοινωνιολογία της θρησκείας, Πολιτική της θρησκείας AG Θρησκευτική ζωή, Υλική θρησκεία BE Ελληνορωμαϊκές θρησκείες ΤΒ Αρχαιότητα |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
mistrust
B Impurity B Τραστ B Purity B spiritual insecurity B scapegoat rituals |
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| Σύνοψη: | This article examines the role of mistrust – especially in constructions of purity, impurity, and purification – in ancient Greek religion. It begins by examining so-called scapegoat or pharmakos rituals, in which an individual was expelled from the city, apparently as a purificatory offering to the gods. Recent analyses have argued that these rituals were outlets for community aggression, and/or were resonant with myths of self-sacrifice. This article will suggest a different analysis of the evidence. I offer an alternative way of interpreting these rituals that sets them in a wider context of Greek ritual and belief: it suggests that the ritual of the pharmakos arose in a context of social and spiritual insecurity. This created, I argue, a prevailing dynamic of social and spiritual mistrust, within which the pharmakos ritual emerged – and which it exacerbated. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341662 |