The Cult of Heroes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9342126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur Darby Nock (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1944 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-174 |
| Publication date | 1944-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Harvard Theological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-8160 • E-ISSN: 1475-4517 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0017816000019155 |
| OpenAlex | W2158258437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 6 |
The text discussed p. 73 ff. is a measure to ensure equitable and uncontentious distribution of the flesh of the two ‘fullgrown victims,’ and presumably of the young pig also. There is no mention of the burning of portions in honor of the heroines or of the hero, and outside Greece we know of sacrifices in which the worshippers took all. Such detail would be irrelevant to the purpose of our inscription, which is not a lex sacra ; and the use of θύειν and the presence of an altar (for the restoration in line 6 is almost certain) strongly suggest that conventional symbolic offerings were made by fire
Altar · Art · Art history · Cult · Flesh · HERO · Honor · Humanities · Literature · Sacrifice · Theology · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy
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Mediterranean Sacrifice
Dionysos Comes to Thrace
Queens and Ruler Cults in Early Hellenism
Women and Sacrifice in Classical Greece
Worship Your Enemy
Porphyry, Sacrifice, and the Orderly Cosmos
Why Does Zeus Care about Burnt Thighbones from Sheep? Defining the Divine and Structuring the World through Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greece
Politics, Primordialism, and Orientalism
The cicada on theomphalos
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1945 - 2019 (75) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |