| Civic Priests: Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity Contributor(s): Horster, Marietta (Editor), Klöckner, Anja (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110258072 ISBN-13: 9783110258073 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Religion | Cults - Religion | Clergy |
| Dewey: 292.610 |
| LCCN: 2011039555 |
| Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche Und Vorarbeiten |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 255 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |