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Temple and Sanctuary Cult

The worship organized around a sacred precinct — its boundary, altar (for sacrifice), and temple housing the god's image — as the spatial center of public religion.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  3. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  4. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  5. Quaestiones Graecae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  6. Description of Greece
    · 180
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  7. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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