- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: What is a Greek Priest? [Albert Henrichs]
- Part I. Priests and Ritual
- Priests as Ritual Experts in the Greek World [Angelos Chaniotis]
- Part II. Variations of Priesthood
- Priestly Personnel of the Ephesian Artemisium: Anatolian, Persian, Greek, and Roman Aspects [Jan Bremmer]
- Professionals, Volunteers, and Amateurs in the Cult of Demeter: Serving the Gods kata ta patria [Susan Guettel Cole]
- “Greek” Priests of Sarapis? [Beate Dignas]
- Priests—Dynasts—Kings: Temples and Secular Rule in Asia Minor [Ulrich Gotter]
- Part III. Visual Representation
- Images of Cult Personnel in Athens between the Sixth and First Centuries BC [Ralf von den Hoff]
- Part IV. Ideal Concepts and their Transformation
- The Iamidae: A Mantic Family and Its Public Image [Michael Flower]
- Authority Disputed: The Seer in Homeric Epic [Kai Trampedach]
- Part V. Manteis: Priests at All?
- Philosopher and Priest: The Image of the Intellectual and the Social Practice of the Elites in the Eastern Roman Empire [Matthias Haake]
- An Egyptian Priest in Delphi: Kalasiris as theios aner in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica [Manuel Baumbach]
- Epilogue [Beate Dignas and Kai Trampedach]
- Bibliography
- Index
HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES
Hellenic Studies Series 30
Practitioners of the Divine
Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus
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