title: Burial Cults
abstract: Tauric Chersonesos is one of the prominent Ancient Greek centres on the north coast of the Black Sea. Founded by the Herakleians, with a small group of the Delians, Chersonesos was the only Dorian city in the region. This fact is reflected in many events and phenomena of its history and culture; it concerns especially its religion, related to all aspects of the private and public lives of the population. Founded on a peninsula (‘chersonesos’ in Greek) settled by the local tribes of Tauri (‘Tauri
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