Cities and priests
Subtitle: cult personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial period
By: edited by Marietta Horster and Anja Klöckner
Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten -- Band 64; Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten -- Bd. 64.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; ger; fre
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9783110318371; 9783110318487
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Religion; Antike; Priester; Personenkult
Description: This volume brings together historical, archaeological and religious studies approaches to offer a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of the social and political role of priests and priestesses of civic cults from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. The presentation and representation of priesthoods and individual priests are discussed inter alia through examples from Priene, Ephesos, Smyrna, Stratonikeia, Lindos, and Kos. --Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner ; Les prêtrises mixtes : genre, religion et société / Delphine Ackermann ; Priests and Funding of Public Buildings on Cos and Elsewhere / Ludwig Meier ; Priestly Portion vs. Cult Fees; title: The Finances of Greek Sanctuaries / Isabelle Pafford ; Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families / Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge ; Commemorating Pious Service: Images in Honour of Male and Female Priestly Officers in Asia Minor and the Eastern Aegean in Hellenistic and Roman Times / Joannis Mylonopoulos ; The Profits of Self-Representation: Statues of Female Cult Personnel in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods / Oliver Pilz ; Priene: Civic Priests and Koinon- Priesthoods in the Hellenistic Period / Marietta Horster ; Civic Producers at Stratonikeia. The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara / Christina G. Williamson ; Roles of Civic Priests in Hellenistic Cos / Stéphanie Paul ; Elite und Priestertümer im hellenistischen Kos / Péter Kató ; Dienerinnen der Demeter? Zu einer Gruppe von Grabreliefs aus Smyrna / Anja Klöckner.