Cults of Apollo at Sparta: The Hyakinthia, the Gymnopaidai and the Karneia (Skrifter Utgivna AV Svenska Institutet I Athen 8°, 12)

Front Cover......Page 1
Cults of Apollo at Sparta: The Hyakinthia, the Gymnopaidiai and the Karneia......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Introduction and literary testimonia......Page 10
Previous research......Page 13
FOOD......Page 15
WREATHS......Page 18
THE PAEAN......Page 20
THE SACRIFICIAL PRACTICE......Page 22
THE STRUCTURE OF THE CULT......Page 26
Introduction......Page 30
The young Hyakinthos......Page 31
The mature Hyakinthos......Page 36
Hyakinthos and Polyboia......Page 39
Summary......Page 42
The literary testimonia......Page 43
Previous research......Page 45
Choreia as tests of endurance......Page 46
Choreia as education......Page 49
Choreia as a religious experience......Page 52
Summary......Page 56
The literary testimonia......Page 58
Previous research......Page 60
Distribution of the cult......Page 61
Representations of Apollo Karneios......Page 62
The military aspect......Page 63
The Karneia and the Aigeidai......Page 67
The race of the staphylodrornoi......Page 69
Summary......Page 72
Introduction......Page 74
The cults as a ritual cycle......Page 76
Introduction......Page 79
Age classes between 0 to 6 years......Page 80
Age classes between 7 and 20 years: the agoge......Page 81
Age classes between 20 and 60 years......Page 86
The ritual cycle and the age class system......Page 88
Introduction......Page 92
The Amyklaion in the Late Bronze Age......Page 93
The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. The Protogeometric pottery......Page 98
Society in Early Iron Age Lakonia......Page 102
The Dorian question......Page 107
The political development during the eighth century......Page 110
The Great Rhetra......Page 113
Religion and the polis......Page 118
Conclusions......Page 125
Athenaios 4.139c-f......Page 128
Pausanias 3.19.1-5.......Page 129
Thucydides 5.23.4-5......Page 130
Aristotle fr. 532 (Rose)......Page 131
Macrobius Sat. 1.18.2......Page 132
Plato Leg. 1. 633c......Page 133
Pausanias 3.11.9......Page 134
Pindar Pyth. 5.72-81......Page 135
Thucydides 5.75.5......Page 136
Pausanias 3.13.4......Page 137
Athenaios 14.635e-f......Page 138
List of illustrations......Page 139
Abbreviations......Page 140
Bibliography......Page 141
Index of sources......Page 161
Index......Page 166
Back Matter: SKRIFTER UTGIVNA AV SVENSKA INSTITUTET I ATHEN - ACTA INSTITUTI ATHENIENSIS REGNI SUECIAE......Page 172