Hierophylakes

Hierophylakes is another word for hierodidaskaloi, hieronomoi, hierophantai.[1]

They were involved in the performing of acts of sacrifice.[2]

The hierophantai were priests for the Eumolpidai.[3]

Pausanias stated that new hierophantai were elected every quadrennial, and so individuals did not maintain an existence within this role for their life-time. He also stated that they might marry if they wished to do so known as, lambanein gynaika.[3]

See also

Hierophant

References

  1. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus (translated by Earnest Cary) - The Roman Antiquities Aeterna Press 30 May 2015 [Retrieved 2015-07-13]
  2. ↑ Stéphanie Paul (edited by Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner) - Cities and Priests: Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period Volume 64 of Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, Walter de Gruyter 1 Jan 2014, 380 pages, ISBN 3110318482 [Retrieved 2015-07-13]
  3. 1 2 W.S. Bubelis ( edited by R. Laurence, A. Stromberg). Inheritance, Priesthoods, and Succession in Classical Athens:the Hierophantai of the Eumolpidai (in) Families in the Greco-Roman World. A&C Black 2 Feb 2012, 194 pages, ISBN 1441139273. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
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