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(Ebook) Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece by Theodora Suk Fong Jim; Suk Fong Jim ISBN 9780198706823, 0198706820

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Authors:Theodora Suk Fong Jim; Suk Fong Jim
Pages:373 pages.
Year:2014
Editon:online
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Language:english
File Size:7.6 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780198706823, 0198706820
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(Ebook) Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece by Theodora Suk Fong Jim; Suk Fong Jim ISBN 9780198706823, 0198706820

Sharing with the Gods examines one of the most ubiquitous yet little studied aspects of ancient Greek religion, the offering of so-called "first-fruits" (aparchai) and "tithes" (dekatai), from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. While most existing studies of Greek religion tend to focus on ritual performance, this volume investigates questions of religious belief and mentality: why the Greeks presented these gifts to the gods, and what their behaviour tells us about their religious world-view, presuppositions, and perception of the gods. Exploiting an array of ancient sources, the author assesses the diverse nature of aparchai and dekatai, the complexity of the motivations underlying them, the role of individuals in shaping tradition, the deployment of this religious custom in politics, and the transformation of a voluntary practice into a religious obligation. By synthesizing a century of scholarship on 'first-fruits' practices in Greek and other religious cultures, the author challenges prevailing interpretations of gift-exchange with the gods in terms of do ut des and da ut dem, which emphasize the reciprocal, obligatory, and sometimes commercial aspects of the gift, and explores hitherto neglected notions including gratitude and thanksgiving. Drawing on current approaches to gift-giving in anthropology, sociology, and economics, in particular the French anthropologist Godelier's idea of 'debt', the volume offers new perspectives with which to conceptualize human-divine relations, and challenges traditional views of the nature of gift-giving between men and gods in Greek religion.
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