Pindar and the Cult of Heroes

ISBN: 9780199586707 出版年：2005 页码：504 Currie, Bruno Oxford University Press

A radical new appraisal of the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece. Bruno Currie finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence Roman emperor cult, in the 5th century BC (and earlier), and identifies Pindar's victory odes as a crucial stage in this process.