Ruler cult, Greek and Hellenistic
Divine honors for mortals who had political and/or military power were not an invention of the Greek world. 
 
 
Keywords: 
 
ancient Greece; 
cultural history; 
political history; 
religious history
Queens and ruler cults in Early Hellenism: Festivals, Administration, and Ideology
Comment une nouvelle divinite, munie de ses attributs specifiques, ses timai et ses epiphanies, peut-elle etre creee ? Par qui ? Et a quelles fins ? Qui seront ses pretres et ses fideles ? La documentation hellenistique confere une perspective historique aux aspects cultuels, sociaux et ideologiques de ces phenomenes religieux et les cultes des souverains sont un cas particulier de l’etablissement et de l’acceptation de nouveaux dieux. Les cultes de souveraines n’ont que tres recemment recu l’attention qu’ils meritent. L’article etudie les cas de Berenice Ire, Arsinoe II et Laodice V afin de fournir de nouvelles interpretations de quelques fetes dynastiques et d’etudier la relation entre les cultes de souverains et la legitima­tion du pouvoir feminin. La discussion repose surtout sur des papyrus et des inscriptions, mais l’analyse conclusive de l’Idylle XVII de Theocrite montre que la logique poetique de la legitimation du pouvoir entre en resonance avec celle qu’attestent les sources non litteraires.
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
This is a story of rumour, charity, vengeance, and restraint. "American Insurgents, American Patriots" reminds us that revolutions are violent events. They provoke passion and rage, a willingness to use violence to achieve political ends, a deep sense of betrayal, and a strong religious conviction that God expects an oppressed people to defend their rights. The American Revolution was no exception. A few celebrated figures in the Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be killed. Breen not only tells the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to America's road to independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence, American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation, which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance. "American Insurgents, American Patriots" is the stunning account of their insurgency, without which there would have been no independent republic as we know it.