Worship Your Enemy: Aspects of the Cult of Heroes in Ancient Greece

Herodotus, in the course of his account of the customs of the Scythians, describes the treatment which the inhabitants of the Tauric peninsula reserve for their enemies: after consecration to Iphigeneia, they are struck on the head with a club and decapitated; their bodies are either buried or preci...

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Main Author: Visser, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1982
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1982, Volume: 75, Issue: 4, Pages: 403-428
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