Pericles and the Plague: Civil Religion, Anomie, and Injustice in Thucydides
This paper examines the problems of “civil religion,” “anomie,” and injustice in Athenian society as presented in Thucydides's narrative of the Peloponnesian war. Thucydides juxtaposes Pericles's funeral oration, as an embodiment of Athenian civil religion, with his description of Athenian...
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Oxford Univ. Press
1996
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1996, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-407 |
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