An edition of Cities and priests (2013)
Cities and priests
cult personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial period
By Marietta Horster
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Publish Date
2013
Publisher
De Gruyter
Language
eng
Pages
368
Description:
This volume brings together historical, archaeological and religious studies approaches to offer a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of the social and political role of priests and priestesses of civic cults from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. The presentation and representation of priesthoods and individual priests are discussed inter alia through examples from Priene, Ephesos, Smyrna, Stratonikeia, Lindos, and Kos. --Amazon.com.