Contesting the Past: Hero Cult, Tomb Cult, and Epic in Early Greece
@article{Antonaccio1994ContestingTP, title={Contesting the Past: Hero Cult, Tomb Cult, and Epic in Early Greece}, author={Carla M. Antonaccio}, journal={American Journal of Archaeology}, year={1994}, volume={98}, pages={389 - 410} }
Greek hero cult has been extensively discussed by both archaeologists and philologists. This paper considers two current hypotheses: one links the development of hero cult in the eighth century B. C. with the circulation of Homeric poetry; the other views hero cult as a transformation of ancestral veneration in the context of the emergent polis. A review of the archaeological evidence for the Iron Age and Early Archaic period suggests that the earliest hero cult in the archaeological record…
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