Ancient Greek Hero Cult

This is a collection of 12 papers read at an international seminar in Goteborg, Sweden, that deal with various phenomena of the ancient Greek hero cult based on literary, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are the hero cults in Early Iron Age Greece, the relationship between funerary ritual, the veneration of ancestors and the cult of heroes, the Danaides of Argos as "ancestors," and other topics.