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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagman, Robert S., author.

Series:

Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy ; volume 6.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Thessaly.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Inscriptions--Greece--Thessaly.

Inscriptions.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Farsala.

Inscriptions--Greece--Farsala.

Nymphs (Greek deities).

Thessaly (Greece)--Antiquities.

Thessaly (Greece).

Farsala (Greece)--Antiquities.

Farsala (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Geography and landscape (plates I-V, VII-X)

The site (plates VI, VIII-XXII)

The votives

The inscriptions

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-29762-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004297623 DOI