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Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece (Traditions)

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Along with their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Despite the fact that these heroes played an very important role in Greek religion, Corinne Ondine Pache’s Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece is the first systematic study of the considerable selection of Greek babies and children who become enduring myths, objects of worship, and the recipients of sacrifice. Examining literary, pictorial, and numismatic representations, Pache opens up a vast territory once occupied by children such as Charila, Opheltes, Melikertes, and the children of Hercules and Medea. She elegantly argues that the stories, songs, and sanctuaries honoring these heroes express parental fears and guilt about children’s death. Pache further demonstrates that whilst the myths and rituals articulate basic human anxieties, their emphasis is in the long run at the beauty that transcends the gruesomeness of the narrative, turning their dread into poetry. By showing the continuity of child heroes in Greek religion, she is in a position to throw new light on iconographies that have prior to now defied explanation.

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