Greek Votive Offerings
Greek Votive Offerings

Author: William Henry Denham Rouse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1107456428

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Originally published in 1902, this book provides an extensive survey of the tradition of votive offerings in ancient Greece. Rouse details the various motives behind offerings, including propitiation, tithes, and domestic purposes, drawing on the evidence of inscriptions and ancient eyewitnesses, and also examines ancient votive formulae. Thirteen indices containing an exhaustive list of epigraphical references to votive offerings at various shrines are also included. This well-written and richly-illustrated book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek religion and the history of votive offerings.

Man and the Word
Man and the Word

Author: Himerius

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780520250932

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"This important book by a superior scholar makes Himerius' speeches accessible for the first time in English. "—Timothy Barnes, author of Constantine and Eusebius

Votive Reliefs
Votive Reliefs

Author: Carol L. Lawton

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1621390314

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This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged according to their subjects, the author treats the history of their discovery, their production and workmanship, iconography, and function. A large part of the study is devoted to discussion of the original contexts of the reliefs in an attempt to determine their relationship to shrines in the vicinity and to investigate what they can tell us about the character of religious activity in the vicinity of the Agora. The work will be an important reference for historians of Greek art as well as of Greek religion.