- EAN13
- 9782875623836
- Éditeur
- Presses Universitaires de Liège
- Date de publication
- 21/08/2023
- Collection
- Kernos suppléments
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782875623836
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Studies in the cultic honours for Hellenistic leaders and benefactors mainly
focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon.
Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its
material and practical aspects: media, ritual action and space, agency,
administration and funding. Specialists in Hellenistic history, epigraphy,
papyrology, numismatics, and archaeology provide fresh reassessments of a
variety of documentary dossiers concerning both institutional and non-
institutional agents (cities, kingdoms; individuals, associations), Greek and
non-Greek, across the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean world. Moreover, this
interdisciplinary investigation of the materiality of rituals addressed to
human benefactors as to, or together with, traditional gods allows us to go
beyond a commonly accepted yet methodologically arbitrary separation between
cultic honours for deities and for human beings. The latter are often still
considered as an isolated and paradoxical feature of ancient Greek polytheism,
and as a deviation from ‘traditional’ religion, i.e., the cults for gods and
heroes as they were already practised in the archaic and classical polis.
Rather, the case studies dealt with in this book contribute to shedding new
light on the way ancient people could exploit the ritual and administrative
toolkit of their religious system in order to satisfy new needs. In other
words, one may state that cultic honours for political leaders do not provide
an exception to the way Greek polytheism functioned, but are fully embedded
within it, and substantially contributed to its development in the Hellenistic
age.
focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon.
Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its
material and practical aspects: media, ritual action and space, agency,
administration and funding. Specialists in Hellenistic history, epigraphy,
papyrology, numismatics, and archaeology provide fresh reassessments of a
variety of documentary dossiers concerning both institutional and non-
institutional agents (cities, kingdoms; individuals, associations), Greek and
non-Greek, across the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean world. Moreover, this
interdisciplinary investigation of the materiality of rituals addressed to
human benefactors as to, or together with, traditional gods allows us to go
beyond a commonly accepted yet methodologically arbitrary separation between
cultic honours for deities and for human beings. The latter are often still
considered as an isolated and paradoxical feature of ancient Greek polytheism,
and as a deviation from ‘traditional’ religion, i.e., the cults for gods and
heroes as they were already practised in the archaic and classical polis.
Rather, the case studies dealt with in this book contribute to shedding new
light on the way ancient people could exploit the ritual and administrative
toolkit of their religious system in order to satisfy new needs. In other
words, one may state that cultic honours for political leaders do not provide
an exception to the way Greek polytheism functioned, but are fully embedded
within it, and substantially contributed to its development in the Hellenistic
age.
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