Ancient Greek Religion - Oracle, Lykaion, Polyhymnia, Thesmophoria, Herma, Kykeon, Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism, Cabeiri, Anthesteria (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Oracle, Lykaion, Polyhymnia, Thesmophoria, Herma, Kykeon, Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism, Cabeiri, Anthesteria, Phanes, Rharian Field, Charon's obol, Magic in the Greco-Roman world, Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism, Temple of Artemis, Religion in ancient Greece, Brauron, List of oracular statements from Delphi, Be parmak Mountains, Orphism, Greek hero cult, Heraion of Perachora, Pharmakos, Curse tablet, Totenpass, Sacrificial tripod, Rhamnous, Greek terracotta figurines, Hieros gamos, Kalaureia, Gorgoneion, Xoanon, Kanephoros, Protogenoi, Ploutonion, Greek underworld, Asylum, Eidolon, Orgia, Delphic Sibyl, Drawing down the Moon, Clarus, Pitsa panels, Temple of Apollo Zoster, Philia, Pinax, Temenos, Kanathos, Hellenism and Hinduism, Kernos, Athenian sacred ships, Amphidromia, Apaturia, Skira, Taraxippus, Olen, Thyia, Cynosarges, Azone, Journal of Hellenic Religion, Ornithomancy, Hieromenia, Hierodule, Diipetes, Greco-Roman religion, Sacred War, Adymus. Excerpt: Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. According to Greek and Latin literary sources, the coin was a payment or bribe for the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. Archaeological examples of these coins have been called "the most famous grave goods from antiquity." The custom is primarily associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans, but is found also in the Near East, and later in Western Europe, particularly in the regions inhabited by Celts of the Gallo-Roman, Hispano-Roman and Romano-British cultures, and among Germanic peoples of late antiquity and the early Christian era, with sporadic examples into the early 20th century. Although archaeology shows that the myth reflects an actual custom, the placement of c...