[694] Odyssey, x, 519 ff.; xi, 25 ff.
[695] Stengel and Oehmichen, Die griechischen Sakralaltertümer, p. 99 f.
[696] Gardner and Jevons, Greek Antiquities, p. 158 ff.; Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie, Index, s.v. Heros; Deneken, article "Heros" in Roscher, Lexikon. Lists of heroes are given by F. Pfister, in Der Reliquienkult im Altertum.
[697] Thucydides, v, 11; Pausanias, i, 32. For other examples, and for the details of the cult, see Stengel and Oehmichen, Die griechischen Sakralaltertümer, p. 96 ff.
[698] Similar functions are performed by saints in some Buddhist, Christian, and Moslem communities.
[699] Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft; Miss J. E. Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, chap. ii, and the references in these works. On the Keres as ghosts see Crusius, in Roscher's Lexikon, s.v. Keren, and Harrison, op. cit., chap. v.
[700] Ovid, Fasti, v, 439 ff., manes exite paterni; cf. the Greek proverbial expression θύραζε κᾶρες (Suidas, s.v. θύραζε).
[701] De Groot, Religion of the Chinese, chap. iii.
[702] Aston, Shinto; Knox, Religion in Japan, p. 66 f.
[703] 1 Sam. xxviii.