Apollo Patroios on Aegina
Aegina’s patrai, family groups known from Pindar’s poetry, have long proved enigmatic. A recently published horos from Aegina, reading Ἀπόλλονος ⋮ Πατρ|όιο (“of Apollo Patroios”) provides key evidence about their role in archaic Aegina outside of epinician poetry. Rather than being an artifact of At...
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| 发表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/kernos, |
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| 语言: | Anglais |
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Kernos
2025
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| 在线阅读: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 总结: | Aegina’s patrai, family groups known from Pindar’s poetry, have long proved enigmatic. A recently published horos from Aegina, reading Ἀπόλλονος ⋮ Πατρ|όιο (“of Apollo Patroios”) provides key evidence about their role in archaic Aegina outside of epinician poetry. Rather than being an artifact of Athens’ control over Aegina in the fifth century BCE, this horos attests to a cult of Apollo that was patroios to a given patra, that is, entrusted to or otherwise proprietary to them. This interpretation joins other evidence for the patrai’s tutelary relationship with Aeginetan cults. Beyond the implications for the organization of cult on Aegina, the exclusivity of the patrai provides a contrasting view of kinship groups when juxtaposed with the better-understood Athenian examples and offers an opportunity to consider the institutional diversity of archaic Greece. |
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