{"product_id":"miasma","title":"Miasma","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has sampled even a few of the most commonly read Greek texts will have encountered pollution.  The pollution of bloodshed is a frequent theme of tragedy: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes.  In historical texts we find cities intervening in the internal affairs of others to `drive out the pollution', or making war on account of it.  Political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons.  Purity is a constant concern in\n\u003cbr\u003eritual texts, and any Greek underwent many small purifications in his everyday life.  Certain abnormal religious movements of the archaic age made `purification' the path to felicity in the afterlife.\n\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156974924014,"sku":"9780198147428","price":216.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198147428.jpg?v=1706233226","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/miasma","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}