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Pindar and the cult of heroes by Currie, Bruno

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Some themes in hero cult, Homer and Pindar -- pt. 2. Heroization in the fifth century BC -- pt. 3. …”
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Cretan sanctuaries and cults continuity and change from Late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic period / by Prent, Mieke

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Cult and koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly by Graninger, Denver

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Aspects of ancient Greek cult context, ritual and iconography /

Subjects: “…Cults Greece History Congresses.…”
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Landscapes, gender, and ritual space the ancient Greek experience / by Cole, Susan Guettel

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The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia a study of sovereignty in ancient religion / by Munn, Mark Henderson

Subjects: “…Cybele (Goddess) Cult Greece Athens History.…”
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Cultural poetics in archaic Greece cult, performance, politics /

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The poetics of appearance in the Attic korai by Stieber, Mary C. (Mary Clorinda)

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The sacred law of Andania a new text with commentary / by Gawlinski, Laura

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Civic priests cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic period to late antiquity /

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Dionysos in classical Athens : an understanding through images / by Isler-Kerényi, Cornelia

Subjects: “…Dionysus (Greek deity) Cult.…”
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Cave and worship in Ancient Greece : new approaches to landscape and ritual /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: On Reading Caves and Ancient Greek CultStella Katsarou and Alexander NagelThe Dawn of Ancient Greek Cave Cult: Prehistoric Cave SanctuariesStella KatsarouCaves as Sites of Sensory and Cognitive Enhancement: The Idaean Cave on Crete NassosPapalexandrouCaves and Consumption:The Case of Polis Bay, IthacaCatherine Morgan and Chris HaywardCommunities, Consumption and a Cave: The Profile of CultatDrakainaCave onKephalloniaAgathi KaradimaA River Ran Through It: Circulating Images of Ritual and Engaging Communities in a Cave in AitoloakarnaniaAlexander NagelThe Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica:New Evidence for thePerformance of Cult in the Historic Era Jorge J. …”
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Panthée : religious transformations in the Graeco-Roman Empire /

Table of Contents: “…From local to global -- part 2. Emotions, mystery cults, and soteriology -- part 3. New identities, and integration processes.…”
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Stesichoros's Geryoneis by Curtis, Paul, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A prosopography of Stesichoros -- The Geryon myth in the Archaic period -- Historical background -- Performance -- The geryoneis as a choral song -- Cult of Geryon -- Language and phonology -- Metre -- The papyri -- The terminus ad quem of physical texts for The geryoneis -- Order of fragments -- Geryoneis -- Note on the text -- Index criticorum -- Text -- Commentary -- Appendices -- Testimonia -- Additional sources -- Eastern parallels -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Editions -- Commentaries -- Select bibliography -- Tabula comparationis -- Indices.…”
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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…self-presentation and identity of Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCR) / Gilles Gorre -- Shifting conceptions of the divine: Sarapis as part of Ptolemaic Egypt's social imaginary / Eleni Fassa -- Modes of cultural appropriation -- Aretalogies / Andrea Jordens -- Hellenistic world(s) and the elusive concept of 'Greekness' / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou -- 'Jews as the best of all Greeks': cultural competition in the literary works of Alexandrian Judaeans of the Hellenistic period / Sylvie Honigman -- Political institutions and the Lykian and Karian language in the process of Hellenization between the Achaemenids and the early Diadochi / Christian Marek -- Interculturality in image and cult in the Hellenistic east: Tyrian Melqart revisited / Jessica L. …”
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