The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters has published a new publication: The Cult of Poseidoniate Hera and the Lucanians in Poseidonia/Paistom: An Ancient Story of Religion and Multiculturalism.
The subject of this work is the cult of goddess Hera in the Greek colony of Poseidonia, in Southern Italy. The work focuses on the process through which the local Italic Lucanians preserved and continued the cult after they had taken control of the city from the Greeks sometime between 420 and 410 BCE.
Gianluca De Martino
Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 145
Vaasa 2023, 329 pp.
The book can be purchased through the bookstore Tiedekirja, Snellmaninkatu 13, 00170 Helsinki.
