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15 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.502
- isbn: 9782874560033
- eisbn: 9782821829008
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Hero-cults ritual religious beliefs ancient Greek religion sacrifice Religion Archaeology History HIS002010 HBLASujets proches
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Gunnel Ekroth, « Chapter II. Evidence for sacrifices in hero-cults down to 300 BC », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.502
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Chapter II deals exclusively with sources dating to before 300 BC, in order to distinguish the sacrificial rituals in hero-cults in the Archaic to early Hellenistic periods from the contemporaneous evidence alone. As in the preceding section, the epigraphical and literary sources will be examined separately. As I mentioned in the introduction, heroes have commonly been considered as having sacrificial rituals different from those of the gods: holocaustic sacrifices, libations of blood, offeri...