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which sometimes was the focus of a cult, though not all heroes received religious attention. The difference between a hero and a ...
as banqueting scenes and riders, and, where the age of the departed is known, they were often children or adolescents, whose unt ...
Another early category of hero to consider is the oikist, the leader of the party setting out to found a new colony outside the ...
of families. Most of these heroes are male warriors or kings, giving rise to our modern use of ‘‘hero’’ and ‘‘heroic.’’ But myth ...
town, killing sixty innocent children. He barely escaped being lynched and took refuge in a stone chest in a sanctuary and then ...
angered and vengeful and needed to be propitiated, but this condition was also the source of their power, making them stronger t ...
Apart from regular animal sacrifices, the heroes also receivedtheoxenia, offerings of food of the kind eaten by humans. This rit ...
particular heroes. Heracles receivedthysiasacrifices, at which the meat was eaten, andenagizeinsacrifices, a combination meant t ...
any written evidence it is often difficult to distinguish a cult-place for a hero from that of a minor god or, in later periods, ...
The heroes were local phenomena, and the layout of the cult-place was adapted to local conditions and traditions. These circumst ...
individual bones did not contain the power of the hero (unless the rest of the skeleton was missing, as in the case of Pelops’ s ...
Pelopid heroes became even more pronounced when the Spartans transferred the bones of Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, from Arcadia in ...
called heroes. In this period, the termhe ̄ro ̄onused in a funerary context referred to a substantial monument for the departed ...
theoretical underpinning in the division of Greek religion into an Olympian and a chthonian sphere, with the two spheres being v ...
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CHAPTER SEVEN Prayers and Hymns William D. Furley Prayer and Hymn When modern Western man seeks privileged information with a vi ...
requirement to communicate with these deities. For that is surely the simplest definition of this topic: prayers and hymns are a ...
So I think Pulleyn (1997) is right when he says that hymns are distinguished from prayers not only by these formal aspects I hav ...
worshipers move away from profane space in a small (or vast) procession which includes the sacrificial animals and equipment. Wh ...
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