Regionality and Greek Ritual Norms
This article asks to what extent Greek ritual norms are homogeneous throughout the Greek world. It looks in particular at rules concerning priesthoods, purity and sacrifice. Only the first group displays a clear regional line of division: sale of priesthoods is only attested in the east Greek world,...
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| Gepubliceerd in: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/kernos, |
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Kernos
2018
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This article asks to what extent Greek ritual norms are homogeneous throughout the Greek world. It looks in particular at rules concerning priesthoods, purity and sacrifice. Only the first group displays a clear regional line of division: sale of priesthoods is only attested in the east Greek world, beginning at Andros. That distinction aside, some local singularities or outliers occur in all categories, and some differences that must be due to epigraphic habit. But substantial and regular regional differences at the level of actual ritual practice do not appear. Study of Greek ritual norms may therefore suggest that in some aspects there existed a Greek religion, not just a multitude of locally varying Greek religions. |
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