This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closu

This collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period. Drawing on various studies on religion and ri

In order to reconstruct ancient rituals we must rely on ancient texts. That is the premise of these eight papers which are taken from a conference held at Stanf

Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritua