Civic Priests | Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity | ISBN 9783112203958

Civic Priests

Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity

herausgegeben von Marietta Horster und Anja Klöckner
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonMarietta Horster
Herausgegeben vonAnja Klöckner
Buchcover Civic Priests  | EAN 9783112203958 | ISBN 3-11-220395-X | ISBN 978-3-11-220395-8

Civic Priests

Cult Personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity

herausgegeben von Marietta Horster und Anja Klöckner
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonMarietta Horster
Herausgegeben vonAnja Klöckner
Images and inscriptions indicate how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others. Cultural records like dedications, honorific statues and decrees are central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches in this study 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.