This contribution focuses on the Delphic oracles reportedly given to the Athenians on the eve of Xerxes' invasion. It aims at distinguishing and defining various issues: the historical problems involved in these texts (some of which seem doomed to remain open questions), the possible hints to these oracles in the Athenian tradition before Herodotus (especially in Aeschylus’ Persians), the relationship between the Delphic responses to the Athenians and the complex Herodotean narrative accounting for them, and finally the role of this narrative in Herodotus’ Histories.

Atene, Delfi e l'invasione persiana / Vannicelli, Pietro. - In: SEMINARI ROMANI DI CULTURA GRECA. - ISSN 1129-5953. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 371-388.

Atene, Delfi e l'invasione persiana

VANNICELLI, PIETRO
2014

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This contribution focuses on the Delphic oracles reportedly given to the Athenians on the eve of Xerxes' invasion. It aims at distinguishing and defining various issues: the historical problems involved in these texts (some of which seem doomed to remain open questions), the possible hints to these oracles in the Athenian tradition before Herodotus (especially in Aeschylus’ Persians), the relationship between the Delphic responses to the Athenians and the complex Herodotean narrative accounting for them, and finally the role of this narrative in Herodotus’ Histories.
2014
Atene; Delfi; Erodoto; oracoli; Guerre persiane
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Atene, Delfi e l'invasione persiana / Vannicelli, Pietro. - In: SEMINARI ROMANI DI CULTURA GRECA. - ISSN 1129-5953. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 371-388.
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