Title | Burying a sage: the heroon of Thales in the agora of Miletos |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Herda A |
Conference Name | 2èmes Rencontres d'archéologie de l'IFEA: Le Mort dans la ville Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début de l'Age du Bronze à l'époque romaine. |
Publisher | IFEA-Ege yayınları |
Keywords | Miletus |
Abstract | This article adresses the heroon of Thales in the agora of Miletos, so far only literarily attested (§§ IV, VII). The sage was worshiped as secondary founder, having the status of a ‘cultural hero’, an age-old Indo-European concept. Graves of founders are typically placed on the agora (§ V), but not those of the mythical founders of Miletos, Asterios, Miletos and Kelados or Ionian Neileos (§ VI). Of the intramural heroa excavated in Miletos none can claim to be that of Thales: Neither ‘Heroon I (the grave of the Macedonian general Dokimos?), II and III’ (§ I), nor the ‘Ehrengrab’ |
URL | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00808217/document |