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Using the abundant documentation and material record from post-classical Athens as a case study, the essays in this volume explore the ways in which the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms. The approaches are both historical and archaeological, and elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and their perception, by themselves and by others, as citizens of the polis. Four essays in English, tow in German, one in French.