By Yulia Ustinova
This is often the 1st systematic examine of the cults of the Bosporan state, which existed in South Russia within the first centuries advert. The learn relies on various resources: archaeological facts and inscriptions, mostly unknown to the non-Russian readers, in addition to ancient and literary texts. the faith of the Bosporus is considered during this monograph as a mix of Greek and indigenous Iranian traditions. Its first half is devoted to the cult of Celestial Aphrodite. the second one half examines the debatable cult of the main excessive God and its alledged Jewish affinities. The e-book, illustrated with thirty figures, is a crucial contribution to the knowledge of the non secular existence in Greek colonies, and the background of jap Mediterranean in overdue Antiquity.
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The most ancient wooden xoanon of Aphrodite Ourania on Cythera For Aphrodite as a star-goddess see Knigge 1982; 1985. In any case, they are not depicted on other replicas of the Athenian original. 45 With a collection of 31 literary and epigraphic Graeco-Roman Testinomia (pp. 29-36). 43 44 48 CHAPTER ONE depicted her armed (Paus. g. Paus. l0; cf. PirenneDelforge 1994: 103, 199, 211). Some representations of armed Aphrodite have been preserved (Flemberg 1994: passim). 46 The inscription on the stele commemorates the dedication of a thiasos: ...
H. S. 1) also described the sanctuary of Ourania on Cythera as the most sacred (ayul:rtatov) and the most ancient (apxato-ta1:0v) of all Greek sanctuaries of Aphrodite. The temenos at Paphos was already famous by Homer's time (Od. 267; H. Aphr. 23 Hesiod (1heog. 191-198) makes Aphrodite, who had just arisen from the foam, swim first to Cythera in a seashell, and only thereafter come ashore in Cyprus. Aphrodite could have been named Ourania, because she was born of the semen of the castrated Ouranos, as Hesiod relates (1heog.
V. "Ayotcrn<;; cf. Mitchell 1995, 2: 19), a primordial earth-born bisexual creature, who was deprived of his/her male organs by the gods (Paus. 11). The androgyny of the primeval being, represented in the temple of Zeus Belos in Babylon, is described in detail by Berossus (Cook 1914-40, 2: 675). It seems to be conveyed also by the Levantine coins featuring double malefemale heads (Cook 1914-40, 2: 674, figs. 607-613). 24 25 38 CHAPTER ONE mentioned by Philochoros (FGH 328 F 184). 2). It was told that Theseus, when sacrificing a she-goat to Aphrodite, discovered that a female animal had turned into a male (Plut.