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Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. In Homeric Greek, "hero" (ἥρως, hḗrōs) refers to the mortal offspring...

important role in Ancient Greek religion. These ancient Greek hero cults worshipped heroes from oral epic tradition, with these heroes often bestowing blessings...

Greek religion can refer to several things, including Ancient Greek religion Greek hero cult Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenistic religion Platonic idealism...

of Olympus. The Greeks called the extraordinary dead – founders of cities and the like – heroes; in the simplest form, Greek hero cult was the burial and...

of Saul and Jonathan’s Bones (II Sam 21, 12–14) in Light of Ancient Greek Hero-Cult Stories", ZAW, 125,4 (2013), 640–645. Baldwin, Joyce G. (1988). 1 and...

earlier Egyptian practices and Greek hero-cults and established themselves as Pharaohs within the new syncretic Ptolemaic cult of Alexander III of Macedonia...

or cult worship of the hero. They were often erected over his or her supposed tomb or cenotaph. They were erected from the time of archaic Greece to the...

of the Roman State Greek hero cult, one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion Cult (film), a Japanese film Cult (TV channel), an Italian...

this culture. Later Greeks thought of the Mycenaean period as an age of heroes, as represented in the Homeric epics. Greek hero cult centered on tombs....

stories concern the ancient Greek religion's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and mythological creatures;...

List of Greek deities List of Greek mythological creatures Hansen, pp. 32–33. Hansen, p. 35. Burkert, p. 203. Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Hero cult. Harry...

Hyacinthus (Ancient Greek: Ὑάκινθος, Huákinthos, /hy.á.kin.tʰos, iˈa.cin.θos/) is a deified hero and a lover of Apollo in Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae...

headed culte réformé. In the specific context of the Greek hero cult, Carla Antonaccio wrote: The term cult identifies a pattern of ritual behavior in connection...

(c. 10–70 AD), ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Hero (given name), including a list of people with the given name Hero (singer) (Kim Jaejoong...

Richard Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality, 1921. Jane Ellen Harrison, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, 1912. Jane...

within the larger kin group. The ancient Greek hero cult was also a funerary cult; in the original sense, a hero was a deified or semi-divine ancestor,...

The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis...

Cults of the Greek States (5 volumes) Greece and Babylon (See Ancient Greece and Babylon.) (1911) Outline-History of Greek Religion (1920) Greek Hero...

of the Greek gods Gemistus Pletho Greco-Roman mysteries Greek deities Greek hero cult Greek mythology in popular culture Hellenistic philosophy Hellenistic...

The oikistes (Greek: οἰκιστής), often anglicized as oekist or oecist, was the individual chosen by an ancient Greek polis as the leader of any new colonization...