Pollution (Miasma) in Greek Tragedy

miasma (μίασμα) Pollution


Apollo was the god of katharsis, of purification especially after homicide and the miasma, of pollution and the spilling of blood].

References

Miasma (Greek mythology) - Wikipedia

Apophrades - Oxford Research Encyclopedias https://bit.ly/3DpN8uV
The ‘moonless’ times at the end of the month. Because pollution was thought to be abroad, temples were closed and major undertakings were avoided.

Fabian Meinel (9 March 2015). Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04446-3.

Pollution and crisis in Greek tragedy by Fabian Meinel - Academia.edu 

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Visser, Margaret. “Vengeance and Pollution in Classical Athens.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 45, no. 2, 1984, pp. 193–206. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2709287. 

Clifton Holland Kreps (1990). Miasma in the Plays of Aeschylus. University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Parker (1996). Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814742-8.

Van der Eijk, Philip, editor. “HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE AND GREEK TRAGEDY.” Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers, by Jacques Jouanna and Neil Allies, Brill, LEIDEN; BOSTON, 2012, pp. 55–80. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76vxr.9.

Dyer, R. R. “The Evidence for Apolline Purification Rituals at Delphi and Athens.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 89, 1969, pp. 38–56. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/627464.

PLATO’S PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITION OF CATHARSIS 
https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rh/article/download/4826/4720/

Miasma and katharsis Research Papers - Academia.edu

HellenicGods.org - GLOSSARY OF MIASMA AND PURIFICATION

Katharsis & Miasma - Hellenic Faith