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it is possible that, in some contexts, the cult was always considered ‘‘foreign.’’ An anti-Greek propaganda text, composed proba ...

honor. Several streets in Alexandria bore the name of Arsinoe II accompanied by a cult epithet (Arsinoe Basileia, Elee ̄mo ̄n, T ...

interest in the ‘‘Laws of the Jews.’’ At any rate, it reflects a certain degree of hellenization, at least at the cultural level ...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Religious System in Arcadia Madeleine Jost We no longer need to demonstrate the reality of an Arcadian eth ...

the god say ‘‘I reign over all Arcadia’’ (Dialogues of the Gods22.3). Besides, it was in his role as an Arcadian god that the At ...

Stephanus of Byzantium’s gloss (s.v.Arkadia), according to which Pania was an alternative name for Arcadia. On the right of the ...

performed in which the whole world participates’’ (cf. also Ps.-Plato,Minos315c). Pausanias (8.38.7) is laconic about the sacrif ...

(8.27.6) was known to all the Arcadians and its reputation surpassed that of the city of Lykosoura itself. Furthermore, when he ...

from the animal he offers.’’ This fashion of killing the victims recalls thediasparagmos in the orgiastic cult of Dionysus. In s ...

interesting case is that of Apollo Agyieus at Tegea (Pausanias 8.53.1). The epithet Agyieus reflected the god’s protection of st ...

Thus Athena Alea is attested before the name Alea Athena disappears. Affinities of personality encouraged the rapprochement betw ...

8.23.7). Children had tied a thin cord round the goddess’ neck (that is to say, the neck of her effigy) and said that she had be ...

Lykosoura. In other cases it is the balance between two associated deities that is unusual: the precedence of the daughter (Desp ...

Thaumasion again. This incoherence is the sign of a compromise. It is tempting to locate the revision of the Methydrion traditio ...

changes into a wolf; the Lykaonids for their part are struck at the same time as he is, or else some of them are struck while ot ...

Demeter’s quest for her daughter exhibits Eleusinian influence, but it has no impact on the remainder of the narrative. This is ...

deity; then between 1600 and 1200 BC a developing ‘‘feudal’’ concept had gradually transformed the horse-god Hippos into the god ...

purified of her anger (Lousia), she is – explicitly at Phigalia at any rate – the goddess of grain and the life of cultivation, ...

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING After V. Be ́rard’s now obsolete thesis of the Phoenician origin of Arcadian cults (Be ́rard 1894), the ...

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