greek-customsfeatured in 5 works
Hero Cult
Worship at a tomb or shrine of a dead hero — a powerful local dead figure believed to protect a community and receive chthonic offerings.
How it traveled
- HistoriesThurii (Magna Graecia) · -425explains
- GeographyAmaseia · 24explains
- Quaestiones GraecaeChaeronea · 120explains
- Description of Greece— · 180explains
- DeipnosophistaeNaucratis · 230explains
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis
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