The Hero Cults of Sparta: Local Religion in a Greek City
Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map -- Sites: -- Introduction -- Setting the stage: the Archaic period -- Book structure -- 1 Early Heroes and Hero Cult -- 1.1 Heroes and hero cu...
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| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Further subjects: | B
Hero worship-Greece-Sparta (Extinct city)
B Sparta (Extinct city)-Religion B Sparta (Extinct city) Religion B Hero worship (Greece) (Sparta (Extinct city)) B Sparta (Extinct city) Antiquities B Excavations (Archaeology)-Greece-Sparta (Extinct city) B Excavations (archaeology) (Greece) (Sparta (Extinct city)) |
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Erscheint auch als: 9781788313001 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map -- Sites: -- Introduction -- Setting the stage: the Archaic period -- Book structure -- 1 Early Heroes and Hero Cult -- 1.1 Heroes and hero cult in the literary sources -- 1.2 Hero cult in the archaeological record -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2 Heroic Sites in Sparta: The Archaeological Evidence -- 2.1 Hero shrines: criteria -- 2.2 A survey of the sites and deposits -- 3 The Hero Shrines: Votives, Architectural Evidence, Topography -- 3.1 Votives -- 3.2 Patterns of dedication -- 3.3 Architectural evidence -- 3.4 The hero shrines in the context of Spartan topography162 -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Heroes and Immortality -- 4.1 The Menelaion1 -- 4.2 The Amyklaion -- 4.3 The Dioskouroi -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Honouring the Dead -- 5.1 The prominence of the individual in Archaic and Classical Sparta -- 5.2 Burial and commemoration of the individual in Archaic and Classical Sparta -- 5.3 Heroization of the recently dead -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 Burials and Hero Cult: Three Case Studies -- 6.1 The cult at Stauffert Street -- 6.2 Hellenistic and Roman Sparta -- 6.3 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "This book examines the hero-cults of Sparta on the basis of the archaeological and literary sources. Nicolette Pavlides explores the local idiosyncrasies of a pan-Hellenic phenomenon, which itself can help us understand the place and function of heroes in Greek religion. Although it has long been noted that hero-cult was especially popular in Sparta, there is little known about the cults, both in terms of material evidence and the historical context for their popularity. The evidence from the cult of Helen and Menelaos at the Menelaion, the worship of Agamemnon and Alexandra/Kassandra, the Dioskouroi, and others who remain anonymous to us, is viewed as a local phenomenon reflective of the developing communal and social consciousness of the polis"-- |
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| ISBN: | 1350198056 |