Kernos Supplement 42 : Cleomenes on the Acropolis and Other Studies in Greek Religion and Society : Selected Papers of Robert Parker

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Robert Parker, Wykeham Professor emeritus of Ancient History at Oxford, is one of the leading contemporary experts on ancient Greek religion, as demonstrated by the various monographs he has published on the subject. Alongside books such as Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005), On Greek Religion (2011) and Greek Gods Abroad (2017), he has written dozens of articles that enrich his contribution to this field of study. The most important of them are here collected, with an updated afterword when necessary. The four headings that divide them up bear witness to their author?s ongoing concerns: Religion and Society, Divination, Sacrifice, and the close relationship between Gods and their Names. The collection ends with the outrageous ?small god? Priapos, who stood in image form in gardens and threatened thieves with a dire punishment inflicted by his giant phallos.

Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................................... 7
Religion and Society
Cleomenes on the Acropolis .............................................................................. 11
Spartan Religion .................................................................................................... 35
What are Sacred Laws? ........................................................................................ 61
New ?Panhellenic? Festivals in Hellenistic Greece ......................................... 75
Πατρῷοι θεοί. The Cults of Sub-Groups and Identity
in the Greek World .............................................................................................. 89
Subjection, Synoecism and Religious Life ..................................................... 111
Religion in the Polis or Polis Religion? .......................................................... 139
Regionality and Greek Ritual Norms ............................................................. 155
Divination
Greek States and Greek Oracles ...................................................................... 165
The Lot Oracle at Dodona ................................................................................ 193
Seeking the Advice of Zeus at Dodona .......................................................... 199
Oracle and Client ................................................................................................ 219
Sacrifice
Sacrifice and Battle ............................................................................................. 245
Τίς ὁ θύων .............................................................................................................. 259
Eating Unsacrificed Meat .................................................................................. 265
Substitution in Greek Sacrifice ........................................................................ 277
Gods and their Names
Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion .............................. 287
The Cult of Aphrodite Pandamos and Pontia on Cos ............................... 315
The Problem of the Greek Cult Epithet ........................................................ 331
Priapean Problems .............................................................................................. 353
Places of first publication ........................................................................................ 369
Index .............................................................................................................................. 371

Kernos Supplement 42 : Cleomenes on the Acropolis and Other Studies in Greek Religion and Society : Selected Papers of Robert Parker

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• ISBN-13: 9782875623980 / 978-2-87562-398-0
• ISBN-03: 2875623982 / 2-87562-398-2
• Presses Universitaires de Liege, Liege, 2024

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