Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781417921348
Author
Lewis R. Farnell
Producer
Kessinger Publishing
Pages
452
Year of production
2004
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.