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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| 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 Excavations (Archaeology)-Greece-Sparta (Extinct city) |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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. |
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| ISBN: | 1350198056 |