The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods

1st century 1st-2nd century 2nd century 2nd century AD 4th century 5th century BC Achilles Aeth altar animal sacrifice animal victims Apollon Archaic Athenian Athens blood rituals bomos bothros Brasidas burial Burkert burnt Casabona chthonian connection considered contexts cult destruction sacrifices divinities eaten enagisma and enagismos enagismata enagizein sacrifices entemnein epigraphical Erchia eschara evidence explicatory sources FGrHist followed by dining funerary gods Greek Heliod Hellenistic Hephaistion Herakles hero-cults holocaust holocaustic sacrifices honours IG II2 inscriptions interpretation Jameson Jordan & Kotansky killed kind of ritual kind of sacrifice libations literary sources Marathon meat mentioned offerings Olympian ordinary dead particular Paus Pausanias Pelops period Philostr piglet Plut recipient refer regular thysia Roman Rudhardt sacrifice followed sacrificed sacrifices to heroes sacrificial calendars sacrificial rituals Salaminioi sanctuary Schol seems sheep sphagia Stengel Straten term theoxenia Thorikos thysia thysia sacrifices tomb Tritopatores worshippers Zeus ἐναγίζειν ἐναγίσματα ἐσχάρα καὶ τοῖς ὡς