Singular Dedications : Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
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| Title: | Singular Dedications : Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece |
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| Description: | Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety through the financing and administration of cults they established on their own. Singular Dedications is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period. |
| Authors: | Andrea Purvis |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Cults--History.--Greece |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Cults |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety through the financing and administration of cults they established on their own. Singular Dedications is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period. |
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| ISBN: | 9780203605295 9780415967013 9780415861342 9781135886714 9781135886707 9781135886684 9780203496459 |
