Singular Dedications - Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece

Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety through the financing and administration of cults they established on their own. Singular Dedications is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Approaching Private Cults; Chapter 2 Xenocratia; Chapter 3 Archedamus of Thera; Chapter 4 Xenophon; conclusion Conclusion;

About the author

Andrea Purvis

Summary

Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety through the financing and administration of cults they established on their own. Singular Dedications is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.

Additional text

'It is an interesting, densely argued and extremely scholarly work.' – Journal of Hellenic Studies

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Purvis, Andrea L. Purvis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9780415861342
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86134-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Studies in Classics; Studies in Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Cults, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient religions and Mythologies