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The kings owed the religious functions they performed as priests, as they did their political positions, to hereditary title. In ...
associated with him. If the sacrifice is favorable, the Fire-Carrier takes the fire from the altar and walks at the head of all ...
The Sacralized Structure of Daily Life Space protected by sanctuaries The Lacedaemonians stood out amongst the Greeks not least ...
Eu ro ta s 3 8 P I T A N EC 10 F 4 G 1 11 2 12 L I M N A I 7 D K Y N O S O U R A 0 400 Meters N 9 E B A 6 M E S O A 5 Figure 15. ...
naval victory at Aegospotami in 405, to judge from Lysander’s dedication of a statue to him at Delphi, according to Pausanias (1 ...
that the character of this sanctuary was unique to the best of his knowledge. At Cythera, at the extreme edge of the territory, ...
stars, such as Sirius, the brightest star in the firmament, to fix the dates of their religious festivals (see Richer 1998a:155– ...
Thepathe ̄mata In speaking of his compatriots, Demaratus, the former king of Sparta, had said to Xerxes in 480 BC, ‘‘For, if the ...
thought was the foundation of social discipline.’’ However, an admittedly widespread attitude of great restraint did not prevent ...
In general, even when they had not died as gloriously as Leonidas did, the kings of Sparta were treated not as men but as heroes ...
The protecting dead Thus the Spartans seem to have accorded a great importance to their dead because they saw them as possible p ...
Conclusion The Spartan religious system thus seems to have consisted of quite a coherent complex, open to innovations (insofar a ...
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Religious System at Alexandria Franc ̧oise Dunand At the end of antiquity Alexandria’s religious system must ...
could be dealing with a somewhat ironic name adopted by the Egyptians to designate the capital under construction (Chauveau 1997 ...
be identified; this is the case with most of the temples. The great temple of Sarapis, the prestige of which was immense until i ...
pig played no part in the food offerings made to Egyptian gods. It was into the Thesmophorion that Oenanthe, the mother of Ptole ...
the god’s images and their familiarity to the Alexandrians (Dunand 1981). One chariot carried his monumental statue, others pain ...
Isis Aphrodite is often assimilated to the Egyptian goddesses Hathor or Isis. The latter played a fundamental role in the religi ...
coexisted, but we cannot know for which clientele they were destined. The frequency of a motif allows us at best to estimate the ...
monumental statue by Bryaxis. Cerberus’ presence shows Sarapis’ funerary character clearly: he is largely comparable to a Hades– ...
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