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presentation of the entirety of these votive materials, which certainly constitutes a useful contribution toward our understanding of the many facets of Metapontum's religious practices. Various features of these terracottas lead the author to suggest that Dionysos was the divinity to whom the deposit was dedicated, with whom one could join Persephone. The author suggests that this particular cult with its agricultural connotation, inserted within the urban sanctuary, should be linked to the greater interest in the countryside-and the wealth associated with it-that at the end of the fourth century B.C. must have involved a larger number of Metapontum's citizens. The deposited material may thus be supposed to be the manifestation of a religiousness proper to classes that were not aristocratic, whose emergence is connected with the renewed social equilibria of the period. This attractive supposition, however, requires cautious assessment. Its truth can only be determined when all the materials from the other deposits at Metapontum are better known. In addition, while we may agree that in this period some cults were common to city and country alike, a closer analysis must be made of t

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Author

Susan B. Downey

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)