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Civic Priests - Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Civic Priests - Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten
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Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and
cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others,
illuminating the social and political identity of these figures
within their polis. Dedications and donations by cult personnel,
and the honours that they earned, demonstrate their claim on the
city's attention and their financial power. The cityscape itself
came to be shaped, in varying intensities and forms, by statues in
honour of cult personnel, set up by relatives, fellow citizens and
other groups. This set of cultural records, analysed in the studies
presented here, is central to understanding how the roles of
priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political
terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches are both historical
and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the
cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by
themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis.
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