Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality

1921. The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews. Contents: General Survey of the Prehistoric Period; Heroes and Heroines of Divine or Daimoniac Origin; Sacral Heroes and Heroines; Functional Heroes and Sonder-Gotter; Origin and Diffusion of the Cult of Herakles; The Functions of Herakles; The Ritual of Herakles; The Dioskouroi; The Leukippides; The Cult of Asklepios; The Cults of Epic Heroes; The Cults of Ancestors; Cults of Real Persons in the Historic Period; and Individual Belief in Immortality: the Mysteries and Orphism; and References for Hero-Cults. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: Lewis Richard Farnell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 6.00h x 9.02w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9781163203071

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