Religion and reconciliation in Greek cities :: the sacred laws of Selinus and Cyrene /

Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth....

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Main Author: Robertson, Noel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:American classical studies ; no. 54.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth. In different ways, the content and the format of both inscriptions are so unusual that they have baffled understanding. At Selinus, a large lead tablet with two columns of writing upside down to each other is thought to be a remedy for homicide pollution arising from civil strife, but most of it rem.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 414 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780199742004
0199742006

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