«The Only Means of Salvation is to Take the Sons of Tyndareus as Allies»: on the Question of the Form of Transmission of Hero Cults During Military Operations in the 6th and 5th Centuries B. C.
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2023-50-1-13-20Keywords:
epiphanies, Aeacides, Dioscuri, hero cults, Battle of the Sagra, Battle of SalamisAbstract
The ancient tradition has preserved a number of testimonies when, during the war, a polis turned to another polis for help. If, for some reason, he could not provide it, he sent cults of his heroes. However, we do not know in what form this transmission took place. Most scholars believe that the heroes were transported in the form of some objects. Professor Gregory Nagy of Harvard University, talking about the cult of the Aeacids, suggests that the transfer of cults could imply the transportation to the place of battle of people who seemed to play the role of heroes. The article deals with the question: whether in other cases known to us, heroes can mean people and not sacred objects? Of course, it is impossible to give an unambiguous answer, just as it is impossible to generalize these testimonies. However, having considered them in more detail, we can assume that in all known cases the role of heroes could well be performed by people, since this pattern was known and used in religious rituals.
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