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A. BRELICH, Guerre, agoni e culti nella Gyecia arcaica (Antiquitas, I 7). Bonn, R. Habelt, 1961. 84 p. Pr. DM 19.50/26.-

A. BRELICH, Guerre, agoni e culti nella Gyecia arcaica (Antiquitas, I 7). Bonn, R. Habelt, 1961.... 438 The present study is the elaboration of an argument already mentioned in the author's Python (398, 419, 425), but it is very difficult to prove the truth of this contention. When Fontenrose says that the archaeological finds support him, we have to con- tradict him. For his only tangible piece of information is that on the spot where Pyrros' tomb was localized, remains were found in the older layers, remains of Mycenaean times when evidently this place already was a tomb, or perhaps a shrine or the locality of some cult. The arguments derived from literature are even less convincing. Pausanias tells us of the worship of Pyrros after 278 B. C. when the fearful shapes of armed warriors fought the invading Gauls; among these warriors was Pyrros to whom the Delphians began to render heroic sacrifices because of his help. Of course this later date cannot satisfy the author who wants to place the cult of Pyrros at a date anterior to that of Apollo. Therefore he first says carefully: "Yet it is possible that Pyrros does appear after all, though under another name, in Herodotus' narrative of the Persian attack on Delphi". This other name http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

A. BRELICH, Guerre, agoni e culti nella Gyecia arcaica (Antiquitas, I 7). Bonn, R. Habelt, 1961. 84 p. Pr. DM 19.50/26.-

Mnemosyne , Volume 16 (4): 438 – Jan 1, 1963

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Brill
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© 1963 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
DOI
10.1163/156852563X00676
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438 The present study is the elaboration of an argument already mentioned in the author's Python (398, 419, 425), but it is very difficult to prove the truth of this contention. When Fontenrose says that the archaeological finds support him, we have to con- tradict him. For his only tangible piece of information is that on the spot where Pyrros' tomb was localized, remains were found in the older layers, remains of Mycenaean times when evidently this place already was a tomb, or perhaps a shrine or the locality of some cult. The arguments derived from literature are even less convincing. Pausanias tells us of the worship of Pyrros after 278 B. C. when the fearful shapes of armed warriors fought the invading Gauls; among these warriors was Pyrros to whom the Delphians began to render heroic sacrifices because of his help. Of course this later date cannot satisfy the author who wants to place the cult of Pyrros at a date anterior to that of Apollo. Therefore he first says carefully: "Yet it is possible that Pyrros does appear after all, though under another name, in Herodotus' narrative of the Persian attack on Delphi". This other name

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