AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCESTORS by Carla Maria Antonaccio ( 9780847679423 )

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AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCESTORS
TOMB CULT AND HERO CULT IN EARLY GREECE

By:

Carla Maria Antonaccio

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084767942X

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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

Pub. date:

22 November, 1994

Series:

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Pages:

240

Description:

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.

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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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