An Archaeology of Ancestors : Tomb Cult and Hero Cult in Early Greece
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN-10
084767942X
ISBN-13
9780847679423
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 22nd, 1994
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
474 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.80 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
European historyAncient history: to c 500 CEClassical Greek & Roman archaeology
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Reconsiders the origins of the Ancient Greeks' ideas and practices concerning their own past. This study demonstrates that hero cult and ancestor cult persisted throughout the Iron Age. Practices such as visiting tombs to make offerings were common.
In this fresh consideration of the origins of the ancient Greeks'' ideas and practices concerning their own past, Carla M. Antonaccio demonstrates that hero cult and ancestor cult persisted, throughout the Iron Age, long before epic poetry''s heroic narratives were widely disseminated. Although it was not until the dissolution of Iron Age societies that epic poetry and organized hero cult developed to aid claims to legitimacy, practices such as visiting tombs to make offerings were common, and contradict the usual picture of Iron Age religious conservatism.
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