Between the end of the 3rd and the early 2nd century BC the Pharians sent ambassadors to their motherland Paros, asking for help. The Parians decreed publicly to consult the Delphic oracle. The response, of which only three extremely fragmentary verses are preserved, was inscribed together with the Pharian and the Parian decrees on a stele which was set up in the Dalmatian island of Hvar (ancient Pharos). After providing a hypothetical reconstruction of the content (and meaning) of this metrical response, the present article offers a historical contextualization for it and tries to locate it within the extant Delphic oracular production.
Verso Occidente …”: da Paros a Delfi a Pharos (SEG 23, 489) / Camia, Francesco; DEL MONACO, Lavinio. - (2023), pp. 179-210. - QUADERNI. [10.15168/11572_393989].
Verso Occidente …”: da Paros a Delfi a Pharos (SEG 23, 489)
Francesco Camia;Lavinio Del Monaco
2023
Abstract
Between the end of the 3rd and the early 2nd century BC the Pharians sent ambassadors to their motherland Paros, asking for help. The Parians decreed publicly to consult the Delphic oracle. The response, of which only three extremely fragmentary verses are preserved, was inscribed together with the Pharian and the Parian decrees on a stele which was set up in the Dalmatian island of Hvar (ancient Pharos). After providing a hypothetical reconstruction of the content (and meaning) of this metrical response, the present article offers a historical contextualization for it and tries to locate it within the extant Delphic oracular production.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
