Ancient Greek Hero Cult

Author : Gunnel Ekroth
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Liège
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9782821829008

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The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period by Gunnel Ekroth Pdf

This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that the main ritual in hero-cults was a thysia at which the worshippers consumed the meat from the animal victim. A particular handling of the animal’s blood or a holocaust, rituals previously taken to be typical for heroes, can rarely be documented and must be considered as marginal features in hero-cults. The terms eschara, escharon, bothros, enagizein, enagisma, enagismos and enagisterion, believed to be characteristic for hero-cults, are seldom used in hero-contexts before the Roman period and occur mainly in the Byzantine lexicographers and in the scholia. Since the main kind of sacrifice in hero-cults was a thysia, a ritual intimately connected with the social structure of society, the heroes must have fulfilled the same role as the gods within the Greek religious system. The fact that the heroes were dead seems to have been of little significance for the sacrificial rituals and it is questionable whether the rituals of hero-cults are to be considered as originating in the cult of the dead.

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674244191

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy Pdf

What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447116099

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The Hero Cult by Harald Haarmann Pdf

The hero cult is at the very core of western civilization. Does this characteristic feature originate in the milieu of Greek civilization of antiquity, with an early manifestation in Homer's epic Iliad? No. In fact, its dates back at least 7000 years, and the beginnings are associated with the warrior caste of the Proto-Indo-European pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe who started to migrate into the vast region of Old Europe. With them the cult of heroes entered and changed civilization. With their patriarchal structure and clear hierarchy the Indo-Europeans from the Eurasian steppe took advantage or their warrior caste and won the fusion process with the ancient Europeans. First slowly over generations then rapidly life in Old Europe changed from a peaceful egalitarian system to a patriarchal class system with the important class of warriors.What the newcomers maintained from the Old European order were the goddesses. The veneration of goddesses continued to be a vital part of life and additionally, goddesses were now seen as patrons to the warriors accompanying and protecting them on their way to become heroes. One of these pre-Greek goddesses stands out among all the other daughters of the Goddess of Old Europe, and this is Athena. The interaction of this pre-Greek goddess with the Indo-European heroes will be highlighted in particular. The contrast between the earliest advanced culture in human history and the ideology of the cult of heroes may stimulate the discussion about our present and it may inspire visions for our future.

Author : Jennifer Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134346189

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Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Larson Pdf

Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a quick reference tool or text, and providing a readable account focusing on the oldest, most widespread, and most interesting religious practices of the ancient Greek world in the Archaic and Classical periods, Ancient Greek Cults surveys ancient Greek religion through the cults of its gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines. Jennifer Larson conveniently summarizes a vast amount of material in many languages, normally inaccessible to undergrad students, and explores, in detail, the variety of cults celebrated by the Greeks, how these cults differed geographically, and how each deity was conceptualized in local cult titles and rituals. Including an introductory chapter on sources and methods, and suggestions for further reading this book will allow readers to gain a fresh perspective on Greek religion.

Author : Lewis Richard Farnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Cults
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018303040

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Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality by Lewis Richard Farnell Pdf

Author : Robin Hägg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004497703

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Ancient Greek Hero Cult by Robin Hägg Pdf

Author : Lewis Richard Farnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Cults
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020057647

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Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality by Lewis Richard Farnell Pdf

Author : Deborah Lyons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400864386

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Gender and Immortality by Deborah Lyons Pdf

In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to re-integrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero. According to Lyons, heroines differ from male heroes in several crucial ways, among which is the ability to cross the boundaries between mortal and immortal. She further shows that attention to heroines clarifies fundamental Greek ideas of mortal/immortal relationships. The book first discusses heroines both in relation to heroes and as a separate religious and mythic phenomenon. It examines the cultural meanings of heroines in ritual and representation, their use as examples for mortals, and their typical "biographies." The model of "ritual antagonism," in which two mythic figures represented as hostile share a cult, is ultimately modified through an exploration of the mythic correspondences between the god Dionysos and the heroines surrounding him, and through a rethinking of the relationship between Iphigeneia and Artemis. An appendix, which identifies more than five hundred heroines, rounds out this lively work. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Bruno Currie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191615160

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Pindar and the Cult of Heroes by Bruno Currie Pdf

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person's lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron's religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar's Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.

Author : Gunnel Ekroth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Animal sacrifice
ISBN : IND:30000087753392

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The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods by Gunnel Ekroth Pdf

Author : Michael H. Jameson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316123195

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Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece by Michael H. Jameson Pdf

This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection complements the original publications in two ways: firstly, it makes the articles more accessible; and secondly, the volume offers readers a unique opportunity to observe that over almost five decades of scholarship Jameson developed a distinctive method, a signature style, a particular perspective, a way of looking that could perhaps be fittingly called a 'Jamesonian approach' to the study of Greek religion. This approach, recognizable in each article individually, becomes unmistakable through the concentration of papers collected here. The particulars of the Jamesonian approach are insightfully discussed in the five introductory essays written for this volume by leading world authorities on polis religion.

Author : Jennifer Lynn Larson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415324489

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Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Lynn Larson Pdf

Using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources, and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume offers an accessible account of the Greek gods for undergraduate students.

Author : Carla Maria Antonaccio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 084767942X

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An Archaeology of Ancestors by Carla Maria Antonaccio Pdf

In this fresh consideration of the origins of the ancient Greeks' ideas and practices concerning their own past, Carla M. Antonaccio demonstrates that hero cult and ancestor cult persisted, throughout the Iron Age, long before epic poetry's heroic narratives were widely disseminated. Although it was not until the dissolution of Iron Age societies that epic poetry and organized hero cult developed to aid claims to legitimacy, practices such as visiting tombs to make offerings were common, and contradict the usual picture of Iron Age religious conservatism.

Author : Michael John Anderson
Publisher : Walters Art Gallery
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39076002882558

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Heroes by Michael John Anderson Pdf

"This volume investigates the integral role of heroes in ancient Greek art and culture. More than a hundred statues, reliefs, vases, bronzes, coins, and gems drawn from European and American collections, illustrate the ways in which heroes were represented, why they were important in Greek culture, and what encouraged individuals to seek them out." --Book Jacket.

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444334173

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A Companion to Greek Religion by Daniel Ogden Pdf

This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine