Aigeus SOME DELPHIC ORACLES 630 BCE Know you better than I fair Libya abounding in fleeces Better the stranger than he who has trod it Oh Clever Therans 594 BCE First sacrifice to the warriors who once had their home ID: 816563
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Slide1
Slide2Plan of Delphi
Slide3Themis and
Aigeus
Slide4SOME DELPHIC
ORACLES:
630 BCE Know you better than I, fair Libya abounding in fleeces?
Better the stranger than he who has trod it? Oh! Clever
Therans
!
594 BCE First sacrifice to the warriors who once had their home
in this island,
Whom now the rolling plain of fair
Asopia
covers,
Laid in the tombs of heroes with their faces turned to the sunset
560 BCE Whenever a mule shall become sovereign king
of the Medians, then,
Lydian Delicate-Foot, flee by the stone-strewn
Hermus
, flee,
and think not to stand fast, nor shame to be chicken-hearted
.
Slide5“
Kleobis
and
Biton
”, ca. 600-580 BCE
Inscription found nearby says that the artist was [Poly]
medes of Argos (lit. “the Argive)
Slide6Herodotos tells the story of Kleobis and Biton
....
There was a festival of Hera in Argos, and their mother absolutely had to be conveyed to the temple by a team of oxen. But their oxen had not come back from the fields in time, so the youths took the yoke upon their own shoulders under constraint of time. They drew the wagon, with their mother riding atop it, traveling five miles until they arrived at the temple. [1.31.3] When they had done this and had been seen by the entire gathering, their lives came to an excellent end, and in their case the god made clear that for human beings it is a better thing to die than to live. The Argive men stood around the youths and congratulated them on their strength; the Argive women congratulated their mother for having borne such children. [1.31.4] She was overjoyed at the feat and at the praise, so she stood before the image and prayed that the goddess might grant the best thing for man to her children
Cleobis
and
Biton
, who had given great honor to the goddess. [1.31.5] After this prayer they sacrificed and feasted. The youths then lay down in the temple and went to sleep and never rose again; death held them there. The
Argives
made and dedicated at Delphi statues of them as being the best of men. (
Herodotos
,
Histories
)
Slide7Slide8Kouroi
(singular
Kouros
)
Slide9The
Antenor
Kore
, ca. 530-520 BCE,
Athenian Acropolis,
ded
. By
Nearchos
Anavysos
Kouros
(“
Kroisos
”), grave
m
arker, ca. 530 BCE, “Stay and mourn
a
t the tomb of dead
Kroisos
/Whom
r
aging Ares destroyed one day,
fighting in the foremost ranks.”
Slide10The Delphi Charioteer. 470s BCE, dedicated by
Polyzalos
, tyrant of the city of Gela (Sicily)
Slide11Slide12*P]*O*L*U*Z*A*L*O*S *M*A N*E*Q*H*K[*E*N] …*A*P*O*L*L[*O*N], "...
Polyzalos
dedicated me. …Apollo." The first line has been recut; the earlier, erased inscription can still be read with fair certainty: ... *G]*E*L*A*S *A*N*E[*Q]*E*K*E[*N] *A[*N]*A*S*S[*O*N], "... lord of Gela dedicated...."
Slide13Slide14Slide15Plan of Delphi