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Document Details : Title: Rhodian Priests after the Synoecism Author(s): DIGNAS, Beate Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 33 Date: 2003 Pages: 35-51 DOI: 10.2143/AS.33.0.503594 Abstract : All textbooks on Greek religion emphasize that priests were not representatives of a religious sphere, that they were rather civic magistrates, fully institutionalized within the secular life of the polis; that the office itself had nothing to do with dogma or expertise, let alone with power. These statements are based on the important observation that a distinction between 'sacred' and 'profane' or between 'religious' and 'secular' introduces a dichotomy alien to Greek thought. This article examines the Rhodian example of such a 'polis-controlled-religion'. |
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