TY - BOOK ID - 92202182 TI - Horos Dios : = ΗΟΡΟΣ ΔΙΟΣ : an Athenian shrine and cult of Zeus PY - 2006 SN - 9789004147416 9789047417392 PB - Leiden : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Antiquities KW - Cults KW - Inscriptions, Greek KW - Greek inscriptions KW - Greek language KW - Greek philology KW - Alternative religious movements KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Marginal religious movements KW - New religions KW - New religious movements KW - NRMs (Religion) KW - Religious movements, Alternative KW - Religious movements, Marginal KW - Religious movements, New KW - Religions KW - Sects KW - Archaeological specimens KW - Artefacts (Antiquities) KW - Artifacts (Antiquities) KW - Specimens, Archaeological KW - Material culture KW - Archaeology KW - Zeus (divinité grecque) KW - Culte KW - Athènes (Grèce) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:92202182 AB - In five chapters this volume 1) offers new evidence for the form, date, and meaning of an Archaic rupestral horos of Zeus on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, 2) reports and interprets for the first time many rock cuttings as remnants of the shrine of Zeus implied by the horos inscription, 3) argues from scattered artifacts of Zeus found in central and western Athens and from comparative archaeological evidence that this shrine was devoted primarily to the popular cult of Zeus Meilichios, 4) presents evidence and arguments that other deities, including Herakles Alexikakos, were worshipped at this shrine, and 5) summarizes the chronology of this cult and shrine in their historical and topographical contexts. An Appendix assembles all the testimonia to Zeus Meilichios in Attica. ER -