Greek Hero Cults And Ideas of Immortality the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the
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The details are of little or no value for us, because we cannot help believing that the writer is constructing an imaginary religious picture from his antiquarian lore ; it is incredible that any hero-ritual on this scale could have been performed in his own time. But one fact may be accepted and is of interest, that the Ainianes helped to maintain the cult of Neoptolemos at Delphoi, because they claimed kinship with him. Neither the ancient genealogists nor ethno- graphers explain the ground o...f this claim. We do not know that the Ainianes had any close connexion with the Molossoi, '^ There is no convincing proof that ' the ox of the hero ', 57 rov 0ods n/x-) Tov T]pa)os mentioned in the Delphic inscription, C. I. G. 1688, 32 (Ol. 100. I), is connected with the Neoptolemos-cult : there were other heroes at Delphoi.
3i6 THE CULTS OF EPIC HEROES the early tribe of Epeiros that had a well-established tradition of descent from this hero, a tradition which they handed down to the later Epeirote kings.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The details are of little or no value for us, because we cannot help believing that the writer is constructing an imaginary religious picture from his antiquarian lore ; it is incredible that any hero-ritual on this scale could have been performed in his own time. But one fact may be accepted and is of interest, that the Ainianes helped to maintain the cult of Neoptolemos at Delphoi, because they claimed kinship with him. Neither the ancient genealogists nor ethno- graphers explain the ground o...f this claim. We do not know that the Ainianes had any close connexion with the Molossoi, '^ There is no convincing proof that ' the ox of the hero ', 57 rov 0ods n/x-) Tov T]pa)os mentioned in the Delphic inscription, C. I. G. 1688, 32 (Ol. 100. I), is connected with the Neoptolemos-cult : there were other heroes at Delphoi.
3i6 THE CULTS OF EPIC HEROES the early tribe of Epeiros that had a well-established tradition of descent from this hero, a tradition which they handed down to the later Epeirote kings.
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