The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults
Kernos supplémentsÉditeur : Presses universitaires de Liège
Lieu d’édition : Liège
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 21 août 2023
Collection : Kernos suppléments
Année d’édition : 2020
Nombre de pages : 299
Présentation
Studies in the cultic honours for Hellenistic leaders and benefactors mainly focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon. Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its material and practical aspects: media, ritual action and space, agency, administration and funding. Specialists in Hellenistic history, epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, and archaeology provide fresh reassessments of a variety of documentary dossiers concerning both institutional and non-institutional agents (cities, kingdoms; individuals, associations), Greek and non-Greek, across the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean world. Moreover, this interdisciplinary investigation of the materiality of rituals addressed to human benefactors as to, or together with, traditional gods allows us to go beyond a commonly accepted yet methodologically arbitrary separation between cultic honours for deities and for human beings. The latter are often still considered as an isolated and paradoxical feature of ancient Greek polytheism, and as a deviation from ‘traditional’ religion, i.e., the cults for gods and heroes as they were already practised in the archaic and classical polis. Rather, the case studies dealt with in this book contribute to shedding new light on the way ancient people could exploit the ritual and administrative toolkit of their religious system in order to satisfy new needs. In other words, one may state that cultic honours for political leaders do not provide an exception to the way Greek polytheism functioned, but are fully embedded within it, and substantially contributed to its development in the Hellenistic age.
Sommaire
Stefano G. Caneva
Introduction. Rituals, materiality, and the cultic honours for Hellenistic political leadersMedia, Supports, and Circulation
Stefano G. Caneva
L’importance de la matérialité Le rôle des petits autels, plaques et bases inscrits dans la compréhension des cultes pour les souverainsOlga Palagia
The cult statues of the Ptolemies and the AttalidsStefan Pfeiffer
Offerings and libations for the king and the question of ruler-cult in Egyptian templesRitual, Space, and Practice
Rolf Strootmann et Christina G. Williamson
Creating a royal landscape: Hekatomnid use of urban and rural sacred sites in fourth-century KariaMario C.D. Paganini
Cults for the rulers in private settings: The gymnasia and associations of Hellenistic EgyptStefano G. Caneva
Les honneurs cultuels pour Attale III à Pergame (IvP I 246)Agency, Administration, and Funding
Catharine C. Lorber
Who pays the bill? Monetary aspects of royal cult in the Ptolemaic kingdomStefano G. Caneva et Luca Lorenzon
Les hymnes pour les chefs politiques dans les fêtes civiques : l’apport local à la construction des mythologies royalesStefano G. Caneva
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