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Ancient Greek Hero Cult: Proceedings of the Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, Organized by the Department of Classical Archaeology and ... (Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae) - Softcover
This is a collection of 12 papers read at an international seminar in Goteborg, Sweden, that deal with various phenomena of the ancient Greek hero cult based on literary, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are the hero cults in Early Iron Age Greece, the relationship between funerary ritual, the veneration of ancestors and the cult of heroes, the Danaides of Argos as "ancestors," and other topics.
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- PublisherCoronet Books Inc.
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 9179160379
- ISBN 13 9789179160371
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages205
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Ancient Greek hero cult : proceedings of the Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Göteborg University, 21-23 April 1995 [Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen., 8o ;, 16.]
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. CONTENTS : ALEXANDER MAZARAKIS AINIAN: Reflections on hero cults in Early Iron Age Greece -- ROBIN HÄGG: Funerary ritual, veneration of ancestors and the cult of heroes in Geometric Greece (abstract) -- CHRISTOPH AUFFARTH: Constructing the identity of the 'polis': the Danaides as "ancestors" -- JONATHAN M. HALL: Beyond the 'polis': the multilocality of heroes -- UTA KRON: Patriotic heroes -- BARBARA MCCAULEY: Heroes and power: the politics of bone transferal -- H. ALAN SHAPIRO: Cult warfare: the Dioskouroi between Sparta and Athens -- CARLA M. ANTONACCIO: Colonization and the origins of hero cult -- JÜRGEN W. RIETHMÜLLER: 'Bothros' and tetrastyle: the 'heroon' of Asclepius in Athens -- GUNNEL EKROTH: Pausanias and the sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults -- ELIZABETH R. GEBHARD and MATTHEW W. DICKIE: Melikertes-Palaimon, hero of the Isthmian games -- DENNIS D. HUGHES: Hero cult, heroic honors, heroic dead: some developments in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Seller Inventory # PGASTROM259
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