 | American Philosophical Society - 1904 - 524 Seiten
...divine honors, embalmed and draped and worshiped in temples built for them. From about 400 (or 500) BC to 300 AD coins were struck in honor of these divinities...by emperors and autonomous cities. In general the images were rather naturalistic in older times and became human-like (iconic) afterward. Many of these... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1904 - 486 Seiten
...divine honors, embalmed and draped and worshiped in temples built for them. From about 400 (or 500) BC to 300 AD coins were struck in honor of these divinities...by emperors and autonomous cities. In general the images were rather naturalistic in older times and became human-like (iconic) afterward. Many of these... | |
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... ancients supposed the stars to be the domiciles of the gods; falling stars and falling meteorites signified the descending of a god or the sending of its image to earth. These envoys were received with divine honors, embalmed and draped and worshiped... 