{"product_id":"miasma-1","title":"Miasma","description":"Anyone 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 ritual 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. First published in hardback in 1983, Miasma is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54230079897944,"sku":"9780198147428","price":130.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198147428_4abc1e6f-2e4f-4c93-9392-e4b0cb8d9e18.jpg?v=1764890125","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/miasma-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}