The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods
Author: Gunnel Ekroth
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 442
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The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period
Author: Gunnel Ekroth
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège
Published: 2013-05-15
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 2821829000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that the main ritual in hero-cults was a thysia at which the worshippers consumed the meat from the animal victim. A particular handling of the animal’s blood or a holocaust, rituals previously taken to be typical for heroes, can rarely be documented and must be considered as marginal features in hero-cults. The terms eschara, escharon, bothros, enagizein, enagisma, enagismos and enagisterion, believed to be characteristic for hero-cults, are seldom used in hero-contexts before the Roman period and occur mainly in the Byzantine lexicographers and in the scholia. Since the main kind of sacrifice in hero-cults was a thysia, a ritual intimately connected with the social structure of society, the heroes must have fulfilled the same role as the gods within the Greek religious system. The fact that the heroes were dead seems to have been of little significance for the sacrificial rituals and it is questionable whether the rituals of hero-cults are to be considered as originating in the cult of the dead.
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Sarah Hitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-24
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 110821004X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
The Iconography of Greek Cult in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Author: Robin Hägg
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World
Author: Eftychia Stavrianopoulou
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 350
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Greek Religion
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780674362819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.
New Heroes in Antiquity
Author: Christopher P. Jones
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780674035867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly wide-ranging analysis, Christopher Jones starts from literary heroes such as Achilles and moves to the historical record of those exceptional men and women who were worshiped after death. He asks why and how mortals were heroized, and what exactly becoming a hero entailed in terms of religious action and belief. He proves that the growing popularity of heroizing the dead—fallen warriors, family members, magnanimous citizens—represents not a decline from earlier practice but an adaptation to new contexts and modes of thought. The most famous example of this process is Hadrian’s beloved, Antinoos, who can now be located within an ancient tradition of heroizing extraordinary youths who died prematurely. This book, wholly new and beautifully written, rescues the hero from literary metaphor and vividly restores heroism to the reality of ancient life.
Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece
Author: Michael H. Jameson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-16
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1316123197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection complements the original publications in two ways: firstly, it makes the articles more accessible; and secondly, the volume offers readers a unique opportunity to observe that over almost five decades of scholarship Jameson developed a distinctive method, a signature style, a particular perspective, a way of looking that could perhaps be fittingly called a 'Jamesonian approach' to the study of Greek religion. This approach, recognizable in each article individually, becomes unmistakable through the concentration of papers collected here. The particulars of the Jamesonian approach are insightfully discussed in the five introductory essays written for this volume by leading world authorities on polis religion.
King of Sacrifice
Author: Sarah Hitch
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.
Ancient Greek Cults
Author: Jennifer Larson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1134346182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a quick reference tool or text, and providing a readable account focusing on the oldest, most widespread, and most interesting religious practices of the ancient Greek world in the Archaic and Classical periods, Ancient Greek Cults surveys ancient Greek religion through the cults of its gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines. Jennifer Larson conveniently summarizes a vast amount of material in many languages, normally inaccessible to undergrad students, and explores, in detail, the variety of cults celebrated by the Greeks, how these cults differed geographically, and how each deity was conceptualized in local cult titles and rituals. Including an introductory chapter on sources and methods, and suggestions for further reading this book will allow readers to gain a fresh perspective on Greek religion.
