Artemis and a Hero at the Argive Heraion

by Christopher A. Pfaff

Hesperia, Volume 82, Issue 2
Page(s): 277-299
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.82.2.0277
Year: 2013
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ABSTRACT:

This article presents long-overlooked evidence for subsidiary cults at the Argive Heraion. Whereas some major sanctuaries, such as the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia and the Asklepieion at Epidauros, incorporated rituals for a wide variety of deities, the Argive Heraion seems generally to have had more restricted cult activity. Indeed, previous publications give the impression that only Hera (or more specifically, Hera Argeia) was worshipped in the sanctuary. The evidence presented here, however, shows that in the Classical period at least, limited cult activity at the Argive Heraion was devoted to Artemis and an anonymous hero.