Cities and priests : cult personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial period / edited by Marietta Horster and Anja Klöckner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horster, Marietta.

Klöckner, Anja.

Series:

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 64.

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 0939-2580 ; Band 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Religion.

Turkey.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)--Religion.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cultural records such as dedications, honorific statues and decrees are keys to understanding the manifold and diverse social roles and religious functions of priesthoods in the cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the classical period to late antiquity. These texts and images indicate how the priests and priestesses saw themselves and were viewed by others. The approaches in this volume are historical, religious, and archaeological, and they elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and the perception of priests and priestesses as citizens of the polis. The volume focuses on developments from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. Subjects include: gendered priesthoods and family traditions, the topography of honorary statues and the presentation of funerary monuments, federal and civic priesthoods as well as priests of private cult-foundations, benefactions and social pressure, and the religious, social and political functions of priests and priestesses within cities.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction / Horster, Marietta / Klöckner, Anja

Les prêtrises mixtes : genre, religion et société / Ackermann, Delphine

Priests and Funding of Public Buildings on Cos and Elsewhere / Meier, Ludwig

Priestly Portion vs. Cult Fees − The Finances of Greek Sanctuaries / Pafford, Isabelle

Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families / Carbon, Jan-Mathieu / Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane

Commemorating Pious Service: Images in Honour of Male and Female Priestly Officers in Asia Minor and the Eastern Aegean in Hellenistic and Roman Times / Mylonopoulos, Joannis

The Profits of Self-Representation: Statues of Female Cult Personnel in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods / Pilz, Oliver

Priene: Civic Priests and Koinon- Priesthoods in the Hellenistic Period / Horster, Marietta

Civic Producers at Stratonikeia The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara / Williamson, Christina G.

Roles of Civic Priests in Hellenistic Cos / Paul, Stéphanie

Elite und Priestertümer im hellenistischen Kos / Kató, Péter

Dienerinnen der Demeter? Zu einer Gruppe von Grabreliefs aus Smyrna / Klöckner, Anja

Indices

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110318487

3110318482

OCLC:

862939093