Civic Priests : : Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity / / ed. by Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner.

Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others, illuminating the social and political identity of these figures within their polis. Dedications and donations by cult personnel, and the honours that they earned, demonstrate the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten , 58
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Physical Description:1 online resource (249 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Priests, priesthoods, cult personnel – traditional and new approaches
  • Tradition — Repräsentation — Distinktion. Eine Fallstudie zu Reliefweihungen von Priestern im späthellenistischen und römischen Attika
  • The social construction of priests and priestesses in Athenian honorific decrees from the fourth century BC to the Augustan period
  • Prêtres et prêtresses d’Athènes et de Délos à travers les décrets honorifiques athéniens (167-88 a. C.)
  • The tenure, appointment and eponymy of priesthoods and their (debatable) ideological and political implications
  • Heidnische Priester in Attika vom dritten bis zum fünften Jahrhundert nach Christus
  • Athenian civic priests from classical times to late antiquity: some considerations
  • Indices