Altar'd States of Consciousness Ritual Intoxication in the Boiotian Kabeirion and the Athenian Anthesteria Festival 公开
Kesler, Lara Kathleen (2012)
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Abstract
Altar'd States of Consciousness
Ritual Intoxication in the Boiotian Kabeirion and the Athenian
Anthesteria Festival
The symposium is one of the most widely known images from ancient
Greece - the civilized
gathering of philosophers who reclined on couches and drank wine
while discussing important
matters of politics, science, and art. Certainly these festivities
occurred frequently and their role
in the society of Athens in particular was essential to civic
order, however the scholarship on
such activities is nearly exhaustive. The religious use of alcohol
in Greece, as opposed to social,
is indeed a much less studied field and it is precisely this realm
which this work seeks to explore.
This work is an effort to examine the role of ritualized communal
intoxication in Greek religion,
using the case studies of the Boiotian Kabeirion and the Athenian
Anthesteria festival.
The mystery cult of the Kabeiroi in Boiotian Thebes is a murky one
full of far more questions
than answers, although there is nearly definitive evidence that
heavy drinking occurred en masse
as part of the rituals there. The first chapter of this work
explores the evidence regarding this
cult, beginning first with the fragmentary literary sources, then
following with the ceramics.
Chapter two examines the Athenian Anthesteria festival beginning
with the literature, then
looking to the often discussed, yet ill-defined ceramic
evidence.
In an effort to contextualize these case studies, chapter three
presents a more generalized view of
Greek drinking practices through a look at the symposium,
libations, and mythological
perceptions of intoxication. The final chapter provides several
anthropological theories which
may be useful when attempting to answer the question of why
the ancient Greeks were becoming
intoxicated as part of the rituals of these cults, with intriguing
conclusions.
Table of Contents
Introduction
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1
Chapter 1: The Mystery Cult of the Kabeiroi
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Chapter 2: The Athenian Anthesteria
....................................... 26
Chapter 3: Alcohol's Role in Typical Greek Society
..................... 47
Chapter 4: Anthropological Analysis
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Conclusion
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70
Primary Works Cited
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74
Bibliography
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76
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