Civic Priests: Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity

Main description: Images and inscriptions indicate how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others. Cultural records like dedications, honorific statues and decrees are central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political...

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Contributors: Horster, Marietta (Other) ; Klöckner, Anja (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2011
In:Year: 2011
Series/Journal:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 58
Further subjects:B Roman Religion Cult Athens Priests Greek Religion
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Summary:Main description: Images and inscriptions indicate how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others. Cultural records like dedications, honorific statues and decrees are central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches in this study are both historical and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis.
Biographical note: Marietta Horster, Universität Mainz, Germany; Anja Klöckner, Universität Gießen, Germany.
Images and inscriptions indicate how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others. Cultural records like dedications, honorific statues and decrees are central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches in this study are both historical and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis
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ISBN:3110258072
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9783110258080