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Colette Jourdain-Annequin, « Les cultes dans l’espace de la cité grecque : organisation territoriale et différenciations sociales », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.2qfn5s
While they reveal the City's origin, cults also testify to its evolution. Relying on the example of Athens, I would not only show that they delineate the command of a territorial space, but that they are also the place where the unity, the oppositions and tensions of the community could be expressed. More precisely, and in opposition with the idea passed on by Aristotle (cf. F. de Polignac) of Athens as focused on only one centre, I should try to see whether it is possible to establish a system of objective relations between the location of cults in the City space and the function they assume, either traducing its heterogeneity, or uniting its social body.