The Hero Cults of Sparta: Local Religion in a Greek City [1 ed.] 9781350198067, 9781788313001, 9781350198050, 1350198064

The Hero Cults of Sparta: Local Religion in a Greek City 9781788313001, 9781350198050, 9781350198067

This book examines the hero-cults of Sparta on the basis of the archaeological and literary sources. Nicolette Pavlides

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Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1920

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Ancient Greek Hero Cult 9179160379

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The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion [New ed.] 1009301845, 9781009301848, 9781009301862

Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horiz

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The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion [New ed.] 1009301845, 9781009301848

Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horiz

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours 9780674244184

The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installmen

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The Best of the Achaeans. Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

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Cults, religion, and violence 9780511086861, 9780521668989, 9780521660648

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Sacred Marriage in the Rituals of Greek Religion 3261044322, 9783261044327

The concept of hieros gamos has roused scholar's interest since the 19th century. The review of scholarship is indi

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Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon 9780520953932

In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, ne

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