Archaeologia Transatlantica XXI : The Sanctuary of Apollo Hypokraios and Imperial Athens

by: Nulton, P.E.

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The Sanctuary of Apollo Hypoakraios and imperial Athens
Authors:Peter E. Nulton, Brown University Center for Old-World Archaeology and Art

Series:
Archaeologia transatlantica, 21

96 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Subjects:
Acropole (Athènes, Grèce)
Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Akropolis
Apollon
Apollon Gott
Greece Athens
Greece Athens Acropolis
Heiligtum
Relief (Sculpture) antique
Relief (Sculpture), Ancient
Sanctuaires Grèce Athènes
Sanctuary of Apollo Hypoakraios (Athens, Greece)
Sanctuary of Apollo Hypoakraios Greece Temples Antiquities
Shrines
Shrines Greece Athens
Votive offerings
Votive offerings Greece Athens

The Cave Sanctuary of Apollo on the North Slope of the Acropolis at Athens was investigated in 1896-97 and produced a rich collection of inscriptions relating to the cult. These inscriptions are published in full for the first time in this work. The author discusses the history of the cult. Far from being of great antiquity as readers of Euripides' "Ion" have long assumed, the cult was instituted in instituted in the time of Augustus when "The Athenians thought it fitting that their archons swear an oath that upheld tradition in connection to Apollo Patroos, but simultaneously honored their 'new Apollo'," the Emperor himself.

Archaeologia Transatlantica XXI : The Sanctuary of Apollo Hypokraios and Imperial Athens

by: Nulton, P.E.

• ISBN-13: 9780974860992 / 978-0-9748609-9-2
• ISBN-03: 0974860999 / 0-9748609-9-9
• Brown University Press, Rhode Island, 2003

Price: 38,00 EURO

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