Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637980
- eISBN:
- 9780748670758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637980.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions
Fritz Graf explores the ways in which epigraphy contributes to our understanding of Greek divinities. He focuses on the corpora of inscriptions from two cities in particular, Priene in Asia Minor and ...
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Fritz Graf explores the ways in which epigraphy contributes to our understanding of Greek divinities. He focuses on the corpora of inscriptions from two cities in particular, Priene in Asia Minor and Gonnoi in Thessaly. He treats several themes: sanctuaries, priests and priestesses; sacred laws; cult epithets (or epicleses) and theophoric names; the rare cult of the Kouretes; festivals and private interactions with the godsLess
Fritz Graf explores the ways in which epigraphy contributes to our understanding of Greek divinities. He focuses on the corpora of inscriptions from two cities in particular, Priene in Asia Minor and Gonnoi in Thessaly. He treats several themes: sanctuaries, priests and priestesses; sacred laws; cult epithets (or epicleses) and theophoric names; the rare cult of the Kouretes; festivals and private interactions with the gods
Anthony Snodgrass
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623334
- eISBN:
- 9780748653577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623334.003.0025
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter explores rural burial in ancient Greek cities. It considers a finding that arose from an intensive survey in western Boeotia: that there were small isolated burial sites, sporadically ...
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This chapter explores rural burial in ancient Greek cities. It considers a finding that arose from an intensive survey in western Boeotia: that there were small isolated burial sites, sporadically interspersed with the ‘activity areas’ of the same rural landscape, and presumably accommodating members of families of landowners. An irrefutable parallel had again emerged from Hans Lohmann's discoveries in Attica, where family burial plots with the remains of built funerary monuments were found in the vicinity of several farm sites. The chapter examines three especially interesting pieces of testimony: the first concerns an early fifth-century inscription from Gortyn in Crete, the second deals with a private speech usually attributed to Demosthenes, and the third refers to an inscription of the third century BC from Gonnoi in Thessaly. Rural burial is, at the least, another of the surprises that the systematic examination of the rural landscape has brought to the understanding of the history of ancient Greece.Less
This chapter explores rural burial in ancient Greek cities. It considers a finding that arose from an intensive survey in western Boeotia: that there were small isolated burial sites, sporadically interspersed with the ‘activity areas’ of the same rural landscape, and presumably accommodating members of families of landowners. An irrefutable parallel had again emerged from Hans Lohmann's discoveries in Attica, where family burial plots with the remains of built funerary monuments were found in the vicinity of several farm sites. The chapter examines three especially interesting pieces of testimony: the first concerns an early fifth-century inscription from Gortyn in Crete, the second deals with a private speech usually attributed to Demosthenes, and the third refers to an inscription of the third century BC from Gonnoi in Thessaly. Rural burial is, at the least, another of the surprises that the systematic examination of the rural landscape has brought to the understanding of the history of ancient Greece.
