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Reruntuhan kuil pahlawan atau heroon di Sagalassos, Turki
Kultus pahlawan adalah salah satu unsur paling menonhol dari agama Yunani kuno. Dalam bahasa Yunani Homerik, "pahlawan" (á¼¥Ïως, hḗrÅs) merujuk kepada orang yang berjuang (pada kedua belah pihak) dalam Perang Troya.
Referensi
- Carla Antonaccio, An Archaeology of Ancestors: Tomb and Hero Cult in Ancient Greece, 1994
- Lewis R. Farnell, Greek Hero-Cults and Ideas of Immortality (Oxford), 1921.
- E. Kearns, The Heroes of Attica (BICS supplement 57) London, 1989.
- Karl Kerenyi, The Heroes of the Greeks, 1959
- Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, 1979.
- Erwin Rohde, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks, 1925
- Jennifer Larson, Greek Heroine Cults (1995)
- Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide (2007). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-32448-9
- D. Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1996)
- D. Boehringer, Heroenkulte in Griechenland von der geometrischen bis zur klassischen Zeit: Attika, Argolis, Messenien (2001)
- G. Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults (2002)
- B. Currie, Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (2005)
