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On Prothysia and Promanteia in Greek Cults
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2011
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For more than seventy years these important terms of Greek sacred vocabulary have been discussed back and forth. Recently French scholars have adduced new arguments to make their meaning clearer. Although the textual evidence, both epigraphical and literary, is not yet sufficiently plentiful to eliminate all possible doubts, it is evident that progress in the understanding of ritual terminology has been made. I should like to add some observations on the problem and to discuss some of the texts which, in the opinion of many scholars, need clarification.
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Note on abbreviations: BCH = Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique; RÉG = Revue des Études Grecques; Rh.Mus. = Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.
1 Haussoullier, B., BCH, 1881, p. 140 ffGoogle Scholar. Homolle, ibid. 1895, p. 64 ff. P. E. Legrand, RÉG, 1900, p. 281 ff. L. Ziehen, Rh.Mus. 1904, p. 391 ff. Idem, Leg. Gr. Sacr. II, pp. 223–225. Stengel, Opferbräuche der Griechen, Leipzig-Berlin 1910, p. 398 ff. Idem, Hermes 1913, p. 634. L. Robert, Hellenica V, p. 16. Cf. Syll. 548, note 6.
2 Amandry, P., BCH, 1942–1943, p. 126Google Scholar ff. Idem, La mantique Apollinienne à Delphes, Paris, 1950, p. 83–84Google Scholar, 112–113. Pouilloux, J., BCH, 1952, p. 484 ffGoogle Scholar.
3 Cf. n. 1.
4 Cf. n. 1.
5 Cf. Wiegand, Th., VII Ber. Milet, Abh. Berl. Ak. 1908, p. 22, l. 1–2Google Scholar: ὄταν δὲ ἠ ἱέρεια ἐπι[τελέσ]ηι τὰ ἰερὰ ὐπὲὰ τῆς πόλ [εως]|[ὄργια] μὴ ἐξεῖαι ὠμοϕάϒιον ἐμβαλεῖν μηθενὶ πρότερον [ἢ ἡ ἱέ]ρεια ὐπὲρ τῆς πόλεως ἐμβάληι. μὴ ἐξεῖναι δὲ μηδὲ [συν]αγαγεῖν θίασον μηδενὶ πρότερον τοῦ δημοσίου.
6 Leg. Gr. Sacr. II, 74, D 31–40.
7 BCH 1895, p. 64.
8 Leg. Gr. Sacr. II, p. 225.
9 RÉG 1900, p. 292.
10 Syll3. 548.
11 Op. cit., p. 84.
12 BCH 1949, p. 366. Cf. L. Robert, RÉG 1951, p. 160.
13 Syll3. 1037, 6–8.
14 Fraenkel, Inschr. Perg. I, p. 168: “stellvertretend das Priesteramt ausüben.” HaussouIIier, RÉG 1919, p. 260: “remplacer le prêtre dans le ministère.” Segre, Osservazioni epigr., Real. Istitut. Lomb. 1936, p. 817: “esercitare le funzioni del sacerdote.”
15 Thuc. I, 25, 4.
16 Index lect. Hal. 1889/1900.
17 Rh.Mus. 1904, p. 401, n. 1.
18 Wilamowitz, Abh. Berl. Ak. 1909, n. 11, l. 25–30.
19 Fouilles de Delphes III, 2, 18, 13.
20 Ibid. 20, 10; 21, 3–4.
21 BCH 1939, p. 184, l. 15–18. I think that my reading ἐπί ϕρυκτῷ is possible. It can indicate the ceremony of inauguration in which the grain played some role. Cf. Mélanges Picard, p. 981 ff.
22 Cf. n. 1.
23 Cf. n. 1.
24 Cf. n.2.
25 Dem. 9.32.
26 Syll3. 176.
27 Rev. Ét. Anc. 1919, p. 77 ff.
28 Cf. n. 6.
29 Op. cit. p. 292.
30 Syll3. 176.
31 Cf. BCH 1952, P. 497.
32 Loc cit.
33 Cf.n.25.
34 Leg. Gr. Sacr. II, 74, D 31–40. Fouilles de Delphes III, 2, 18, 13.
35 Cf. n. 21.
36 Fouilles de Delphes III, 2, 18.
37 BCH 1952, p. 501, note.
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