In the Hellenistic period of Greek history, communities often offered honours and titles to representatives of certain dynasties. Modelled on the earlier civic practice of creating a cult for important mythological or divine figures, the more modern ruler cult signified which figures were important to a city and its region, and represented the city's appreciation in return for favours or military services offered.
This book presents Christian Habicht's argument for the handling of these ruler cults in mainland Greece and the islands, relying upon contemporary testimony, down to 240 BCE. John Noel Dillon's translation of the 1970 German edition also presents the author's updated case studies based on inscriptional discoveries since that time. Includes updated supplemental material, additional bibliography, and detailed subject and source indexes.
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Christian Habicht is Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, USA. A leading historian of the Hellenistic period, an authority on Greek epigraphy and on the history of Athens. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy.
John Noel Dillon is a freelance translator and editor; he has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Exeter, and Peking and lectures on Medieval Latin at Yale Divinity School, USA.
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Foreword
Preface to the 2017 edition
Part 1: Individual Cults
The Earliest Cults
1. The Cult of Lysander on Samos
2. Cults for Lysander in Ionian Cities?
3. A Cult for Alcibiades in Athens?
4. The Cult of Dion in Syracuse
The Cults of the Macedonian Kings
5. The Cult of Amyntas III in Pydna
6. The Cult of Philip II in Amphipolis
7. A Cult of Philip II in Athens?
8. The Cults of Philip II in Eresus and Ephesus
9. A Cult for Philip as Founder in Philippi?
10. The Cults of Alexander in the Greek Cities of Asia Minor
11. The Cult of Alexander in Rhodes
12. Alexander's Cults on the Greek Mainland
13. The Cult of Alexander as Founder in Alexandria
The Cults of Cassander and Lysimachus
14. The Cult of Cassander as Founder in Cassandreia
15. The Cult of Lysimachus in Priene
16. The Cult of Lysimachus in Samothrace
17. The Cult of Lysimachus in Cassandreia
18. The Cult of Lysimachus as Founder in Ephesus
The Cults of the Antigonids
19. The Cult of Antigonus I in Scepsis
20. The Cults of the Antigonids in Athens
21. Cults for Partisans of the Antigonids in Athens
22. The Cults of the Antigonids on the Aegean Islands
23. A Cult of the Antigonids in Rhodes?
24. The Cult of Demetrius in Sicyon
25. The Cult of Demetrius as Founder in Demetrias
26. The Cult of Demetrius on Euboea
27. A Cult of the Corinthian League for the First Antigonids?
28. Cults of Antigonus Gonatas in the Greek Cities?
The Cults of the Seleucids
29. The Cult of Seleucus I in Ilium
30. The Cult of Antiochus I in Ilium
31. The Cult of Seleucus I in Erythrae
32. The Cult of Seleucus I in Colophon
33. The Cult of Seleucus I and Antiochus I in Priene
34. The Cult of Seleucus I and Antiochus in Lemnos
35. The Cult of Seleucus I in Magnesia on the Maeander
36. The Cult of the Ionian League for Antiochus I
37. The Cult of Antiochus I in Erythrae
38. Cults of the Seleucids in Smyrna
39. The Cult of Antiochus I in Teos
40. The Cult of Antiochus I in Bargylia
41. The Cult of Antiochus II in Miletus
42. Founders' Cults of the First Seleucids
The Cults of the Ptolemies
43. The Cults of Ptolemy I and the Third Royal Couple on Rhodes
44. The Cults of the First Ptolemies on the Aegean Islands
45. The Cult of Ptolemy I in Miletus
46. The Cult of Ptolemy II in Byzantium
47. The Cult of the Third Royal Couple in Itanus
48. The Cult of Ptolemy III in Aenus
49. The Founder's Cult of Ptolemy I in Ptolemais
The Cults of the Attalids
50. The Cult of Philetaerus I in Cyzicus
51. The Cult of Eumenes I in Pergamum
52. The Cult of Eumenes in Cos
53. The Cult of a Nicomedes in Cos
Part 2: Civic Cult
Introduction: The Sources
1. Specific Cult Forms
(a) Sacrifices
(b) Temple, Altar, and Cult Statue
2. The Creation of Cults
(a) The Motives for Cults
(b) Specific Occasions for Founding Cults
(c) The Nature of the Act of Establishing a Cult
(d) Excursus: Agesilaus and the Thasians
3. Characteristics of the Cults
(a) Duration and Abolition of Cults
(b) The Local Character of the Cults
(c) Relationship to the Cult of the Gods
(d) Relationship to the Cult of Heroes
(e) Cultic and Profane Honors
(f) Contemporary Polemic against Cults
4. The Meaning of the Cults
(a) Modern Scholarly Assessments of the Cults
(b) The Specific Meaning of the Cults
(c) Cult as a Historical Phenomenon
Addendum
Supplements to Part I
No. 1.: The Cult of Lysander on Samos
No. 4: The Cult of Dion in Syracuse
No. 5: A Cult of Amyntas III in Pydna
No. 6: A Cult of Philip II in Amphipolis
No. 6a: A Cult of Philip II in Thasos
No. 6b: A Cult of a King Philip in Maroneia
No. 6c: A Cult of a King Philip in a City of the Chalcidike
No. 6d: A Cult of a King Philip in Berge (?)
No. 6e: A Cult of a King Philip in Amphipolis
No. 8: The Cults of Philip II in Eresus and Ephesus
No. 9: A Cult of Philip II in Philippi?
No. 9a: A Cult of Philip II in Philippopolis
No. 10: The Cults of Alexander in the Greek Cities of Asia Minor
No. 11a: A Cult of Alexander the Great (and a Ptolemy) in Cos
No. 12: Alexander's Cults on the Greek Mainland
No. 12a: The Cult of Alexander in Thasos
No. 12b: A Cult of the Hero Hephaestion
No. 13: The Cult of Alexander as Founder in Alexandria
No. 13a: The Cult of Philip III and Alexander IV in Samos
No. 14: A Cult of the Founder at Cassandreia
No. 14a: The Cult of Eurydice in Cassandreia
No. 17: A Cult of Lysimachus in Cassandreia
No. 20: The Cults of the Antigonids in Athens
No. 21: Cults for Partisans of the Antigonids in Athens
No. 22a: The Cults of the Antigonids on the Aegean Islands
No. 22b: A Cult of Queen Phila in Samos
No. 22d: The Cults of the Antigonids on the Aegean Islands
No. 23: A Cult of the Antigonids in Rhodes?
No. 24: The Cult of Demetrius in Sicyon
No. 25: The Cult of Demetrius Poliorcetes in Demetrias
No. 26: The Cult of Demetrius on Euboea
No. 28c: Cults of Antigonus Gonatas in Greek Cities? -Histiaea
No. 28d: A Cult of Antigonus Gonatas in Chalkis?
No. 28e: A Cult of Antigonus Gonatas in Athens
No. 30: The Cult of Antiochus I in Ilium
No. 34a: A Cult of Seleucus I and Antiochus (I) in Aegae
No. 36a: A Cult of Antiochus I in Cyme
No. 42d: Founders' Cults of the First Seleucids
No. 42f: Founders' Cults of the First Seleucids
No. 42g: Cults of the Seleucids as Founders-Hierapolis
No. 43: The Cults of Ptolemy I and the Third Royal Couple on Rhodes
No. 44: The Cults of the First Ptolemies on the Aegean Islands
No. 44a: The Cults of the First Ptolemies on the Aegean Islands
No. 44b: Naxos
No. 44d: Lesbos
No. 46b: A Cult of King Magas in Cyrene
No. 47b: A Cult of the Theoi Euergetai in Samos
No. 49: The Founder's Cult of Ptolemy I in Ptolemais
No. 50b: The Cult of Philetaerus in Cyme, Aeolis
No. 52: A Cult of a Eumenes in Cos
No. 54: The Cult of Hieron II in Syracuse
Supplements to Part 2
Bibliography
Supplemental Bibliography
Additional Bibliography Since the Second Edition
Indices
Index of Subjects
Index of Greek Words
Index of Sources
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