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Religious life in late classical and Hellenistic Rhodes
Zachhuber focuses on the evidence from one particular part of the ancient world, the island of Rhodes (primarily consisting of texts inscribed on stone), in order to see what we can tease from its diverse voices and narratives, telling the stories of gods, rituals, customs, and people, and to cast a light on how religion shaped this state.
Cover -- Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction: Tracing Religious Narratives -- 2: Rhodes the Island, Rhodes the Polis: Religious Community and Synoecism -- 2.1. Rhodes before Rhodes? -- 2.2. Stories of an Island: Rhodian Mythology -- 2.3. Foundation Myths: Land, Polis, and Cult -- 2.4. The Rhodian Synoecism -- 2.5. Shared Time I: The Eponymic Year and Priesthoods -- 2.6. Shared Time II: The Sacrificial Year -- 2.7. Choosing Gods, New and Old
2.8. Sub-Levels of Religious Organization: Phylai and Demes -- 2.9. Conclusions -- 3: Rhodian Epigraphic Culture and Society -- 3.1. Hellenistic Local History, Society, and Sources: Narratives and Methodologies -- 3.2. Rhodes in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Period: A Brief History -- 3.3. Being Rhodian: Political Identity and Citizenship -- 3.4. A 'Rhodian' Epigraphic Habit? Regional Variations and Identities -- 3.4.1. The Chronology of Rhodian Public Inscriptions -- 3.4.2. Epigraphy and Regionalism: Cameiros as an Epigraphic Locus
3.4.3. Epigraphy, Exclusiveness, and Local Identity: The Sanctuary of Athena Lindia -- 3.5. The Nature of Rhodian Public Inscriptions -- 3.5.1. Decrees -- 3.5.2. Catalogues -- 3.5.3. Honorific Statue Bases -- 3.6. Conclusions -- 4: Gods of the Rhodian State: Helios and Athena -- 4.1. The Cult of the Sun God -- 4.1.1. Helios' Place in Rhodes -- 4.1.2. Worshipping Helios in the Wider Rhodian World: A (Geo)Political Cult? -- 4.1.3. Imagining Helios: The Colossus -- 4.1.4. Conclusion -- 4.2. Athena on the Acropolis -- 4.2.1. Physical Presence and Cultic Landscape
4.2.2. Worshipping Athena: Rituals, People, and Offerings -- 4.2.3. Dedications, Epiphany, and Religious Memory: The Lindos Stele -- 4.2.4. Athena and Zeus -- 4.3. Conclusions -- 5: Local Pantheons after the Synoecism: The Cults of Ialysos, Cameiros, and Lindos -- 5.1. Ialysos -- 5.1.1. The Religious Landscape of Ialysos -- 5.1.2. Apollo Erethimios -- 5.2. Lindos -- 5.2.1. The Many Faces and Spaces of Lindian Apollo -- 5.2.2. The Religious Landscape of Lindos -- 5.2.3. Religion Outside the Centre -- 5.3. Cameiros -- 5.3.1. Religious Centres in Cameiros: The Cult of Hestia and Zeus Teleios
5.3.2. Diachronic Religion in Cameiros -- 5.3.3. Looking Elsewhere? Religious Networks and Cultic Emulation -- 5.3.4. Cameiran Religion, Rhodian Religion? Territory, Politics, and Gods -- 5.4. Conclusions -- 6: Cults of Rhodes-town -- Cults of the Polis: A Religious History of Hellenistic Rhodes -- 6.1. Foundation to Siege -- 6.2. Siege to Earthquake, 304-c.227 bc -- 6.3. Earthquake to c. 100 bc -- 6.4. 100 bc to the Sack of Cassius (43 bc)-and beyond -- 6.5. Conclusions -- 7: Religious Personnel -- 7.1. Eponyms, Priests, and Religious Colleges in Rhodian Epigraphy
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]