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23 février 2015
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.4914
- isbn: 9782753506688
- eisbn: 9782753531208
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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Emma Stafford, « Cocks to Asklepios : sacrificial practice and healing cult », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.4914
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Rather than looking at a particular element of sacrificial practice, this paper will survey the variety of sacrificial behaviour known to have been associated with a particular cult. Asklepios makes an especially interesting case-study because of the relative abundance of iconographical evidence supplied by votive reliefs, and because of his ambiguous status as a hero only promoted to divinity at a relatively late stage in the development of the Greek pantheon. While the main aim of the paper...