Horos Dios

An Athenian Shrine and Cult of Zeus
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14741-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 144 Seiten, Gewicht: 838 g

Reihe: Monumenta Graeca et Romana

In five chapters this volume 1) offers new evidence for the form, date, and meaning of an Archaic rupestral horos of Zeus on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, 2) reports and interprets for the first time many rock cuttings as remnants of the shrine of Zeus implied by the horos inscription, 3) argues from scattered artifacts of Zeus found in central and western Athens and from comparative archaeological evidence that this shrine was devoted primarily to the popular cult of Zeus Meilichios, 4) presents evidence and arguments that other deities, including Herakles Alexikakos, were worshipped at this shrine, and 5) summarizes the chronology of this cult and shrine in their historical and topographical contexts. An Appendix assembles all the testimonia to Zeus Meilichios in Attica.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LaLonde, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald V. Lalonde, Ph.D. (1971) in Classics, University of Washington, is Professor of Classics at Grinnell College. His scholarship, mainly in the fields of Athenian epigraphy and topography includes (with M. K. Langdon and M. B. Walbank) The Athenian Agora XIX, Inscriptions: Horoi, Poletai Records, Leases of Public Property (Princeton, 1991).