Il culto di Aristeo a Corcira

The topic here presented is part of a PhD project on the archaeology of cult in Kerkyra and its peraia from the 8th to the 4th century B.C., aimed to investigate worships attested on the island and on its projection on the mainland and their archaeological evidences. Among all the attested cult identities, Aristaeus is certainly one of the most interesting figure: being strictly connected to the Euboea, the study of his presence in Kerkyra can indeed contribute to the long standing debate on the Euboeans presence on the island before the Corinthian colonization. The paper therefore wants to argue his presence in ancient Kerkyra, starting from the analysis of available archaeological data and then trying to contextualize them in the light of both literary sources and relationships to other Euboean mythological references known for the island.