A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (/hɪˈroʊ.ɒn/; Ancient Greek: ἡρῷον, romanized: hērôion, pl. ἡρῷα, hērôia), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated...

The Heroon of Trysa is the modern name for an ancient tomb, built around 380 BCE in Trysa, in ancient Lycia in southwest Turkey. It was discovered in 1841...

policies of his father. Several of Ai-Khanoum's key buildings, including the heroön (hero's shrine), the northern fortifications, and a shrine, were constructed...

org/articles/o/opheltes.html. Bravo, Jorge J. “Erotic Curse Tablets from the Heroön of Opheltes at Nemea.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical...

the remains of a man and a woman under a large structure called by some a hērōön (ἡρῷον) or "hero's grave." The other grave held four horses which appear...

University of California, discovered the likely site of the hero shrine (heroön) of Opheltes in 1979. The excavations have uncovered an open-air precinct...

deeds of the royal houses of the Lacedaemonians. In addition to this, a heroön (hero-shrine) was erected for Cynisca in Sparta at Plane-tree Grove, where...

buried was Philip II. Located near Tomb 1 are the above-ground ruins of a heroon, a shrine for cult worship of the dead. In 2014, the ancient Macedonian...

Divo Giulio), also known as Temple of the Deified Julius Caesar, delubrum, heroon or Temple of the Comet Star, is an ancient structure in the Roman Forum...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

of certain tomb cults in the Archaic period." Such Archaic sites as the heroön at Lefkandi and that close to the West Gate at Eretria cannot be distinguished...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

way the real political order is secured in the realm of the Gods". Their herōon or grave-shrine was on a mountain top at Therapne across the Eurotas from...

Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0252025594. Alexander Herda. Burying a sage: the heroon of Thales in the agora of Miletos: With remarks on some other excavated...

Bybassus after the shepherd to whom he owed his life. According to Strabo, a heroön of Podalirius, and another of Calchas, were located in Daunia, Italy, on...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

semi-mythical people who lived on both sides of the Aegean Sea. He had a heroön at Sparta. Apollodorus, 3.10.3 Beck, p. 59 Apollodorus, 3.10.3 Pausanias...

ancient towns of Athenae and Eleusis on the Triton River, and where he had a heroön at Haliartus. Tradition there called him a son of Pandion. In Euboea, which...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

largest 10th century BC building yet known from Greece. Sometimes called "the heroon", this long narrow building, 50 metres by 10 metres, or about 164 feet by...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

Alcimus killed by Deiphobus. Alcimus, one of the sons of Hippocoon. He had a heroon in Sparta. Alcimus, father of Mentor (Odyssey). Alcimus, son of Neleus....

VI's approbation with Greece (Athens in particular) appears at Delos: a heroon dedicated to the Pontic king in 102/1 BC by the Athenian Helianax, a priest...

architectural intermediary between the Christian martyrium and the classical heröon is no longer credited. The magnificence of early Christian basilicas reflected...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

inside. This ceased to have a role in Roman times and was filled over. The heroön, close to the forum and the Temple of Athena, probably celebrated the founder...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

Funeral and burial practices Funeral oration Greco-Roman mysteries Hero cult Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris...

whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself. There was a heroon of Aigeus in Athens, called Aigeion (Αἰγεῖον). Catullus, LXIV. Plutarch...

with founding myths of Greek sites were accorded chthonic rites in their heroon, or "hero-temple". In the Greek world, the first leader who accorded himself...