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Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION american classical studies volume 54 SeriesEditor KathrynJ.Gutzwiller StudiesinClassicalHistoryandSociety MeyerReinhold SextusEmpiricus TheTransmissionandRecoveryofPyrrhonism LucianoFloridi TheAugustanSuccession AnHistoricalCommentaryonCassiusDio’sRomanHistoryBooks 55–56(9B.C.–A.D.14) PeterMichaelSwan GreekMythographyintheRomanWorld AlanCameron VirgilRecomposed TheMythologicalandSecularCentosinAntiquity ScottMcGill RepresentingAgrippina ConstructionsofFemalePowerintheEarlyRomanEmpire JudithGinsburg FiguringGenreinRomanSatire CatherineKeane Homer’sCosmicFabrication ChoiceandDesignintheIliad BruceHeiden Hyperides FuneralOration JudsonHerrman ReligionandReconciliationinGreekCities TheSacredLawsofSelinusandCyrene NoelRobertson Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene NOEL ROBERTSON 1 2010 3 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyrightq2010bytheAmericanPhilologicalAssociation PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Robertson,Noel. ReligionandreconciliationinGreekcities:thesacredlawsofSelinus andCyrene/NoelRobertson. p. cm.—(AmericanPhilologicalAssociationAmericanclassicalstudies;v.54) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. ISBN978-0-19-539400-9 1. Selinus (Extinct city)—Religious life and customs. 2. Rites and ceremonies—Italy—Selinus (Extinct city) 3. Religiouslawandlegislation—Italy—Selinus(Extinctcity) 4. Religiouscalendars—Italy—Selinus (Extinctcity) 5. Inscriptions,Greek—Italy—Selinus(Extinctcity) 6. Cyrene(Extinctcity)—Religiouslife andcustoms. 7. Ritesandceremonies—Libya—Cyrene(Extinctcity) 8. Religiouslawandlegislation— Libya—Cyrene (Extinct city) 9. Religious calendars—Libya—Cyrene (Extinct city) 10. Inscriptions, Greek—Libya—Cyrene(Extinctcity) 11. Religiouscalendars—Greekreligion. I. Title. BL793.S46R632009 292.08—dc22 2009002662 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper For E. L. R. E. A. R. S. A. R. L. I. R. This page intentionally left blank Preface This book is an interpretation of two unusual documents of Greek religion, which though of obvious importance have baffled understanding until now. Both are ‘‘sacred laws’’ calling for certain rites to be performed; they would normally be of interest to specialists alone. But in both, the variety of items and the strangeness of some are unparalleled. It is because old customs have been selected, and new occasions have been devised, so as to satisfy and reconcile the unequal members of a traditional society, the few and the many who are so often set against each other. Both documents are tantamounttoareligiousreform,otherwisehardlyseeninGreekcities. There have been three successive versions, differing considerably in the material included. The original version was much improved by expert criti- cism. Robert Parker at a busy time probed and queried much of it. An authoritativereaderfortheAPAMonographCommitteesuppliedasearching philological critique. Kathryn Gutzwiller, chair of the committee, tactfully and patiently guided both revisions. After this long process, the book is dedicated to four family members in gratitude for their unfailing interest andforbearance. This page intentionally left blank Contents Abbreviations,xi Introduction,3 PartI. AtSelinus,RulesthroughouttheYear 1. TheLeadTablet,15 2. DisplayingtheTablet,31 3. AHouseholdOffering,41 4. TheKotytiaandtheOlympicTruce,53 5. TheSolsticeFestivalatOlympia,69 6. ZeusEumeneˆsandtheEumenides,85 7. TheSemnaiTheai,105 8. ZeusMilichiosinSpring,129 9. BeforetheHarvest,143 10. TritopatreisFoulandPure,155 11. TritopatreisasWindGods,167 12. ZeusMilichiosinSummer,185
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