Together with sacrifice, prayer, and libation, offering dedications was a basic religious activity among ancient Greeks.
This is the first study to view dedications comprehensively as sites of ritual efficacy and, especially, to recov.
Scholarly treatments have focused on formal matters and, more recently, the function of dedications as social display. 480 B.
C.), sanctuaries were bursting with dedications, including finer ones such as statues bearing epigrams.
By the end of the Archaic period (c.
Together with sacrifice, prayer, and libation, offering dedications was a basic religious activity among ancient Greeks