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Title 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
Published Boston : De Gruyter, 2013

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Series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 0939-2580 ; Band 64
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 64.
Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Les prêtrises mixtes : genre, religion et société; Priests and Funding of Public Buildings on Cos and Elsewhere; Priestly Portion vs. Cult Fee -- The Finances of Greek Sanctuaries; Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families; Commemorating Pious Service: Images in Honour of Male and Female Priestly Officers in Asia Minor and the Eastern Aegean in Hellenistic and Roman Times; The Profits of Self-Representation: Statues of Female Cult Personnel in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Priene: Civic priests and Koinon-priesthoods in the Hellenistic PeriodCivic Producers at Stratonikeia. The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara; Roles of Civic Priests in Hellenistic Cos; Elite und Priestertümer im hellenistischen Kos; Dienerinnen der Demeter? Zu einer Gruppe von Grabreliefs aus Smyrna; Indices
Summary This volume brings together historical, archaeological and religious studies approaches to offer a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of the social and political role of priests and priestesses of civic cults from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. The presentation and representation of priesthoods and individual priests are discussed inter alia through examples from Priene, Ephesos, Smyrna, Stratonikeia, Lindos, and Kos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English, German
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Subject RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Essays.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Religion
Antike
Priester
Personenkult
SUBJECT Turkey -- Religion
Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- Religion
Subject Mediterranean Region -- Aegean Islands
Turkey
Anatolien
Ägäische Inseln
Form Electronic book
Author Horster, Marietta, editor
LC no. 2013044033
ISBN 3110318482
9783110318487