Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region
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Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region

Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era

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Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region

Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era

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This is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and much of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite Ourania, Artemis Ephesia, Taurian Parthenos, Isis) as it develops from archaic colonization through Athenian imperialism, the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire in the East down to the Byzantine era. There is a wealth of new and unfamiliar data on all these deities, with multiple consequences for other areas and cults, such as Diana at Aricia, Orthia in Sparta, Argos' irrigation from Egypt, Athens' Aphrodite Ourania and Artemis Tauropolos and more. Greek religion is shown as key to the internal workings of the Bosporan Kingdom, its sense of its landscape and origins and its shifting relationships with the rest of its world.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781316865491
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of maps
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction: Aims, Contexts and Connectivity
  10. Chapter 1 Crimean Parthenos, Artemis Tauropolos and Human Sacrifice
  11. Chapter 2 Crimean Parthenos in Greece, Anatolia and the Mediterranean World
  12. Chapter 3 Artemis of Ephesus in the Bosporan Kingdom
  13. Chapter 4 Bosporan Isis
  14. Chapter 5 The ‘Mistress of Apatouron’: Aphrodite Ourania and the Bosporan Apatouria
  15. Chapter 6 Epilogue: Artemis, Aphrodite and Demeter
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index