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Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, 1979. Erwin Rohde, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks, 1925; Jennifer Larson, Greek Heroine Cults (1995) Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide (2007). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-32448-9
The northwest heroön at Sagalassos, Turkey. A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (/ h ɪ ˈ r oʊ. ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: ἡρῷον, romanized: hērôion, pl. ἡρῷα, hērôia), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero.
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality; H. Homer; O. Oikistes This page was last edited on 24 August 2024, at 08:38 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
This site is dedicated to the mythological hero Opheltes, an infant whose death was foretold by the seer Amphiaraus. Though little remains of the activities of the heroon, it is suspected that the athletic games which took place there were the predecessor of the Nemean Games , though this does contrast with the idea that Herakles created the ...
Achilles' cult was also to be found at other places, e. g. on the island of Astypalaea in the Sporades, [64] in Sparta which had a sanctuary, [65] in Elis and in Achilles' homeland Thessaly, as well as in the Magna Graecia cities of Tarentum, Locri and Croton, [66] accounting for an almost Panhellenic cult to the hero. The cult of Achilles is ...
These heroes, heroines and their cults have already been studied in classical archeology and philology and shape the ideology of a particular period of worshipping heroes in ancient Greece. The earliest literary sources do not use the term hero with the meaning used in subsequent periods, or refer to heroic cult directly.
The oikistes (Greek: οἰκιστής), often anglicized as oekist or oecist, was the individual chosen by an ancient Greek polis as the leader of any new colonization effort. He was invested with the power of selecting a settling place, directing the initial labors of the colonists and guiding the fledgling colony through its hard early years ...
Heroes in the Greek Heroic Age are often depicted on vases, expressing a portion of their story. Greek Hero Heracles is a popular icon among vases and paintings in early art. [6] Moments in history from this period are also captured in statues, such as Perseus with the head of Medusa, the Statue of Achilles, and the Pasquino Group. Polykleitos ...