Queens and Ruler Cults in Early Hellenism

Caneva, Stefano

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Ruler cult, Greek and Hellenistic

Aneziri¹

2021

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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The worship of mortals goes back to the hero worship that had been widespread in Greece. During the fourth century bce we have the first cases of mortals who were holders of political power and received cultic honors. The phenomenon spread especially after Alexander, whose cult engendered several reactions, both in Macedonian circles and in Greek cities. The Hellenistic kings, who were supposed to have qualities that brought them close to the gods, systematically received cultic honors within and outside their kingdom. Their cult became a useful instrument for the cohesion of the kingdom and for communication with subjects and cities.

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Ruler cult, Greek and Hellenistic

Aneziri¹

2021

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty

Mirón

2018

Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

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Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration

Borg

2019

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Th e importance in Roman society of the family, and especially of an extensive family line, has long been taken for granted. It is the pattern that dominates literary texts concerned with the social elite as well as legal sources. During the Republic, the family group that mattered most was the gens , an extended clan whose members all descended in the male line from a common ancestor-which is what we call the 'agnatic family'. 1 Later, so it is assumed, the agnatic family became less important while cognate family relations-that is, relations that also include kin in the female line-became more relevant. 2 In 1983, Keith Hopkins challenged this model fundamentally, and argued: it looks as though, in the period from which such evidence survives (i.e. aft er about 200 BC), the Roman and Italian family was a small, short-lived social unit. It also seems as though broader kinship units, such as clans or clan segments (gentes), at least from this period onwards, played an unimportant role in burials. 3 While Hopkins' conclusions were primarily based on insuffi cient awareness of the evidence, a year later Richard Saller and Brent Shaw reached similar conclusions through a statistical approach to 12,000-13,000 tomb stones from various parts of the Roman empire. Th ey counted each attested type of relationship between commemorator and commemorated, and then classifi ed and added them up as either nuclear family (i.e. parents with their children) or extended relationships. 4 For the city of Rome, this resulted in 72 per cent nuclear relationships in the senatorial class, 77 per cent in the fi rst 1 On the ancient terminology for types of families and kinship relations, see Corbier, 'Constructing kinship'. On Smith's criticism of modern concepts of the gens (in Clan), see my comments below. 2 E.g. Saller, 'Introduction Part 1' , 24; Saller, 'Heirship' , esp. 33. See most recently Galen, Women. 3 Hopkins, Death , 206. He goes on to argue in Chapter 2 that 'they were similarly unimportant in politics'. 4 Types of relationships included spouse to spouse, parent to child, child to parent and sibling to sibling (all classifi ed as 'nuclear'), extended family (e.g. grandparents, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, etc.), heirs, amici (incl. conservi and conliberti), patron, master, freedperson and slave (all classifi ed as 'extended').

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Queens and Ruler Cults in Early Hellenism

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Ruler cult, Greek and Hellenistic

Ruler cult, Greek and Hellenistic

From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty

Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration

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