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Cultura e religione delle acque : atti del convegno interdisciplinare "Qui fresca l'acqua mormora ..." (S. Quasimodo, Sapph- fr. 2,5) ; Messina, 29-30 marzo 2011
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ISBN: 9788876892721 8876892729 Year: 2012 Volume: 167 Publisher: Roma : Giorgio Bretschneider editore,


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Civic priests : cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic period to late antiquity
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ISBN: 1283400596 9786613400598 3110258080 3110258072 9781283400596 9783110258080 9783110258073 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others, illuminating the social and political identity of these figures within their polis. Dedications and donations by cult personnel, and the honours that they earned, demonstrate their claim on the city's attention and their financial power. The cityscape itself came to be shaped, in varying intensities and forms, by statues in honour of cult personnel, set up by relatives, fellow citizens and other groups. This set of cultural records, analysed in the studies presented here, is central to understanding how the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms in post-classical Athens. The approaches are both historical and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis.

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