Greek art. [21] Combining a locally inspired costume with large wings as well as a “prophetic” gesture, the Bosporan artisans thus seem to have created a new iconographic type of a death demon rather [...] held protectively by another figure. The helping partner in the pair can be either another Niobid (according to iconography) or a different personage: a bearded man dressed in a cloak or a woman with heavy [...] Excursus: A winged demon One of these types, however, is remarkably different: the figure of a bearded man dressed in a long-sleeved robe, which reaches to his feet, and a cloak ( himation
privilege by 332. This can be explained by the importance attached to the building of sanctuaries for the cohesion and definition of a polis community. [17] Founding a cult and building a sanctuary [...] ‘the things belonging to the gods and the things relating to a good order among men as sanctioned by the gods’, as discussed most importantly by Connor. [3] There are many references to sharing [...] citizenship; it is also shown by the fact that all important transitions in an Athenian’s life were marked by religious acts by which the community could publicly accept or reject a new member.It is the main
ittita, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni (in press in 2008). ↩ Hall 1972, 568-571. ↩ Cf. for example CIL I 22, 741; Ov. Fasti I 593; Str. XII 6, 2. ↩ [...] rite [2] by which, shortly before the last attack on the besieged city, the Romans asked its tutelary deity to take her favour away from those whom she had granted it until then in order to give [...] celebrated in the same way by those whom they have been taken from» [6] . The expression peregrina sacra (in its turn a subgroup of the sacra publica ) applies then to a precise category of foreign
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