Paperback / softback. New. 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. ISBN 084767942x 9780847679423 [GB]

ISBN10: 084767942X, ISBN13: 9780847679423, [publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]
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Rowman & Littlefield, Date: 1995. Paperback. New. 312 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 1995. Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 084767942X 9780847679423 [GB]