Dinsel

(İng. religious)

Göndermeler

Diğer

Herodotus (1.199), for instance, records that some of the prostitutes at the temple of ‘Ashtart on Cyprus were ordinary women who had temporarily dedicated their bodies to the goddess in gratitude for an answered prayer or as the result of religious obligation.

Significantly, as evinced in De Dea Syria, the Phoenician cities still showed signs of religious autonomy in the second century CE despite all of the inducements towards syncretism which had been offered firstly by Hellenisation and then by Romanisation.