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Title:
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCESTORS
TOMB CULT AND HERO CULT IN EARLY GREECE
By:
Carla Maria Antonaccio
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ISBN 10:
084767942X
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9780847679423
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Publisher:
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.
Synopsis:
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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