1st Edition
Singular Dedications Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
By Andrea Purvis
Copyright 2003
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Approaching Private Cults; Chapter 2 Xenocratia; Chapter 3 Archedamus of Thera; Chapter 4 Xenophon; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Andrea Purvis
'It is an interesting, densely argued and extremely scholarly work.' – Journal of Hellenic Studies
