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Vinony's link graph records 362 inbound references to Heroön, and connects out to Artemis, titan and Helios.
Vinony files it under Ancient Greek buildings and structures, Burial monuments and structures and Greek hero cult.
Vinony links it to 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- tomb
- Religion
- Ancient Greek religion
- Image
- Sagalassos - Heroon.jpg
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- culture
- Ancient Rome
- Commons category
- Heroa
- time period
- classical antiquity
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Hero cult association
- History
- Bronze Age and Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- References
- External links
thumb|right|The northwest heroön at Sagalassos, Turkey
A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (; , pl. ), also Latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero. They were often erected over their supposed tomb or cenotaph. They were erected from the time of archaic Greece to the Augustan Roman period, and as far afield as Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heroön” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.