Practitioners of the Divine

Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus

Beate Dignas

Kai Trampedach

    • Preface
    • Abbreviations
    • Introduction: What is a Greek Priest? Albert Henrichs

      Part I: Priests and Ritual

    1. Priests as Ritual Experts in the Greek World Angelos Chaniotis

      2. Part II: Variations of Priesthood

    2. Priestly Personnel of the Ephesian Artemisium: Anatolian, Persian, Greek, and Roman Aspects Jan Bremmer
    3. Professionals, Volunteers, and Amateurs in the Cult of Demeter: Serving th eGods kata ta patria Susan Guettel Cole
    4. “Greek” Priests of Sarapis? Beate Dignas
    5. Priests - Dynasts - Kings: Temples and Secular Rule in Asia Minor Ulrich Gotter

      6. Part III: Visual Representation

    6. Images of Cult Personnel in Athens between the Sixth and First Centuries BC Ralf von den Hoff

      7. Part IV: Ideal Concepts and their Transformation

    7. Philosopher and Priest: The Image of the Intellectual and the Social Practice of the Elites in the Eastern Roman Empire Matthias Haake
    8. An Egyptian Priest in Delphi: Kalasiris as theios aner in Heliodorus' Aethiopica Manuel Baumbach

      9. Part V: Manteis: Priests at All?

    9. The Iamidae: A Mantic Family and Its Public Image Michael Flower
    10. Authority Disputed: The Seer in Homeric Epic Kai Trampedach
    • Epilogue Beate Dignas and Kai Trampedach
    • Bibliography
    • Index
  • Cover: Practitioners of the Divine

Beate Dignas is Tutor in Ancient History, Somerville College, Oxford University.

Kai Trampedach is Professor of Ancient History at Heidelberg University.