Civic Priests

Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025807-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 541 g

Reihe: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten

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 their claim on the city’s attention and their financial power. The cityscape itself came to be shaped, in varying intensities and forms, by statues in honour of cult personnel, set up by relatives, fellow citizens and other groups. This set of cultural records, analysed in the studies presented here, is central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches 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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klöckner, Anja

Horster, Marietta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Marietta Horster, Universität Mainz, Germany; Anja Klöckner, Universität Gießen, Germany.