Cities and Priests: Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten Book 64)

Cultural records such as dedications, honorific statues and decrees are keys to understanding the manifold and diverse social roles and religious functions of priesthoods in the cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the classical period to late antiquity. These texts and images indicate how the priests and priestesses saw themselves and were viewed by others. The approaches in this volume are historical, religious, and archaeological, and they elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and the perception of priests and priestesses as citizens of the polis . The volume focuses on developments from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. Subjects include: gendered priesthoods and family traditions, the topography of honorary statues and the presentation of funerary monuments, federal and civic priesthoods as well as priests of private cult-foundations, benefactions and social pressure, and the religious, social and political functions of priests and priestesses within cities. Introduction / Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner ; Les prêtrises mixtes : genre, religion et société / Delphine Ackermann ; Priests and Funding of Public Buildings on Cos and Elsewhere / Ludwig Meier ; Priestly Portion vs. Cult Fees The Finances of Greek Sanctuaries / Isabelle Pafford ; Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families / Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge ; Commemorating Pious Service: Images in Honour of Male and Female Priestly Officers in Asia Minor and the Eastern Aegean in Hellenistic and Roman Times / Joannis Mylonopoulos ; The Profits of Self-Representation: Statues of Female Cult Personnel in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods / Oliver Pilz ; Priene: Civic Priests and Koinon- Priesthoods in the Hellenistic Period / Marietta Horster ; Civic Producers at Stratonikeia. The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara / Christina G. Williamson ; Roles of Civic Priests in Hellenistic Cos / Stéphanie Paul ; Elite und Priestertümer im hellenistischen Kos / Péter Kató ; Dienerinnen der Demeter? Zu einer Gruppe von Grabreliefs aus Smyrna / Anja Klöckner. Cultural records such as dedications, honorific statues and decrees are keys to understanding the manifold and diverse social roles and religious functions of priesthoods in the cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the classical period to late antiquity. These texts and images indicate how the priests and priestesses saw themselves and were viewed by others. The approaches in this volume are historical, religious, and archaeological, and they elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and the perception of priests and priestesses as citizens of the __polis__. The volume focuses on developments from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. Subjects include: gendered priesthoods and family traditions, the topography of honorary statues and the presentation of funerary monuments, federal and civic priesthoods as well as priests of private cult-foundations, benefactions and social pressure, and the religious, social and political functions of priests and priestesses within cities. Acknowledgements 7 Abbreviations 9 Introduction 13 Les prêtrises mixtes : genre, religion et société 19 Priests and Funding of Public Buildings on Cos and Elsewhere 53 Priestly Portion vs. Cult Fee – The Finances of Greek Sanctuaries 61 Priests and Cult Personnel in Three Hellenistic Families 77 Commemorating Pious Service: Images in Honour of Male and Female Priestly Officers in Asia Minor and the Eastern Aegean in Hellenistic and Roman Times 133 The Profits of Self-Representation: Statues of Female Cult Personnel in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods 167 Priene: Civic priests and Koinon-priesthoods in the Hellenistic Period 189 Civic Producers at Stratonikeia. The Priesthoods of Hekate at Lagina and Zeus at Panamara 221 Roles of Civic Priests in Hellenistic Cos 259 Elite und Priestertümer im hellenistischen Kos 291 Dienerinnen der Demeter? Zu einer Gruppe von Grabreliefs aus Smyrna 315 Indices 367 This volume brings together historical, archaeological and religious studies approaches to offer a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of the social and political role of priests and priestesses of civic cults from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. The presentation and representation of priesthoods and individual priests are discussed inter alia through examples from Priene, Ephesos, Smyrna, Stratonikeia, Lindos, and Kos. --Amazon.com.