Découvertes récentes et installation du culte d’Apollon pythien à Claros
The excavations of the last ten years make it possible to renew our knowledge concerning the Claros shrine. The site was occupied ever since the Mycenaean era and a female goddess is likely to have been present near the spring before Apollo. A formalized cult was set up around a circular altar ever...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/2005 |
| Summary: | The excavations of the last ten years make it possible to renew our knowledge concerning the Claros shrine. The site was occupied ever since the Mycenaean era and a female goddess is likely to have been present near the spring before Apollo. A formalized cult was set up around a circular altar ever since the protogeometric epoch; it knew a great development in the VIIth c, a number of contacts were then established with the outer world. The VIth c. was a highly prosperous epoch: the shrine was by then fully structured and circumscribed. The cult of Apollo, with until then a strong vernacular connotation, experience a new life under the influence of Delphi. Ionia’s insurgency brought about a sharp check and considerable wreckage: the effects were to be felt as far down as the IVth c. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |