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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819818303321

Autore

Wagman Robert S.

Titolo

The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus : Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine / / by Robert S. Wagman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

90-04-29762-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, , 1876-2557 ; ; volume 6

Disciplina

938/.2

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Thessaly

Inscriptions - Greece - Thessaly

Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Farsala

Inscriptions - Greece - Farsala

Nymphs (Greek deities)

Thessaly (Greece) Antiquities

Farsala (Greece) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-111) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Geography and landscape (plates I-V, VII-X) -- The site (plates VI, VIII-XXII) -- The votives -- The inscriptions -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus is the first book-length study of one of Greece’s most cited nymph sanctuaries. The volume includes a revised catalog, extensive new commentaries on the cave’s famous inscriptions, and a first-time investigation of the site’s topographical and archaeological layout. Also known as Alogopati or Karapla cave, the Pharsalian shrine holds a special place among ancient nymph caves as the only such site to feature an inscribed poetic chronicle of the shrine’s foundation and its founder, the mysterious nymph worshipper Pantalces. Based on years of fieldwork and archival research, Cave of the Nymphs challenges some commonly held views about the origin of this rock-cut ‘tale’ and offers a fresh perspective for understanding the Pharsalian cave in its proper historical context.