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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

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  3. Quaestiones Graecae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  4. Description of Greece
    · 180
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  5. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Quaestiones Graecae · Plutarch

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