Authors: Michael Scott
Aesop,
85
Aethiopica
(Heliodorus),
1
â
2
,
6
,
236
Aetion,
57
Aetolia,
165
â
66
; Aetolian style,
176
; Attalids as ally of,
177
,
180
; control over Delphi,
169
â
76
,
179
,
180
,
183
,
185
,
186
; dedications from,
172
,
176
,
351n17
; as enemy of Macedon,
178
,
180
; and manumissions at Delphi,
200
; military victories,
171
â
74
; murder of Delphi's ambassadors to Rome,
187
; Prusias II and,
351n17
; Soteria festival and,
175
â
76
; statue of the personification of,
172
; withdrawal from Delphi,
188
Afghanistan, visitor from,
184
Against Ctesiphon
(Aeschines),
71
Agamemnon,
318n57
Agesilaus of Sparta,
142
Agis of Sparta: dedication by,
141
Aglaus of Psophias,
321n21
agonothetes (president of games),
213
,
214
,
229
,
358n22
,
362n15
; Plutarch as,
216
agora, Roman,
129
,
226
,
236
,
241
â
42
,
246
,
292
,
Plate II
agriculture: cultivation of sacred land,
71
â
72
,
73
,
75
,
80
,
151
,
161
,
169
; grazing on sacred land,
353n42
; near Delphi,
143
; at site during W.W.II,
280
Agrippina Minor,
210
Ai Khanoum, visitor from,
184
Alcaeus,
33
Alcetas,
219
Alcmaeon,
72
Alcmaeonids,
75
,
98
â
100
,
109
,
113
; and reconstruction of temple,
100
; and Second Sacred War,
131
â
32
Alexander I of Macedon,
122
, golden statue of,
151
Alexander the Great of Macedon,
164
â
65
; death of,
166
; Delphi and defiance of,
165
â
66
; relationship of Amphictyony with,
165
â
66
Alexandrus,
197
Altar of Chians,
176
,
272
,
294
,
332n19
,
333n42
; discovery and excavation of,
272
; dismantled,
246
; location of,
16
; reconstruction of,
276
â
77
; repair and inscription of,
173
Alyattes of Lydia,
58
,
83
; dedications by,
151
Amandry, Pierre,
277
,
281
,
281
â
82
Amasis, pharaoh of Egypt,
96
ambiguity of oracle,
110
,
120
â
21
,
179
,
201
,
314n58
; Christian criticism of,
233
; as defense against powerful consultants,
29
,
84
â
85
; and deliberation or interpretation,
28
â
30
; and differing reports in literary sources,
60
; Nero's consultations and,
210
â
11
; and Persian war,
114
,
116
â
17
; and reputation,
30
; in response to Croesus,
28
â
29
,
83
â
85
,
328n43
; and retroactive interpretation of response,
163
â
64
; unambiguous responses to consultations,
134
American excavations at Delphi,
266
American School of Classical Studies,
264
Ammon, chariot sculpture of,
160
Ammon, sanctuary in Egypt,
165
Amphictyony,
15
,
71
â
72
,
75
,
337n25
; and access to the oracle,
90
; Aetolia and the,
171
â
72
,
175
,
178
; and Alexander the Great,
165
; as arbitrator in conflicts,
192
; and Asclepieion shrine,
226
; Attalids and the,
177
; Augustus and reorganization of,
203
,
205
â
6
,
207
; and city of Delphi,
159
,
186
â
87
; composition of,
77
,
235
; and construction at Delphi,
75
,
92
,
94
,
103
,
113
,
146
,
157
,
159
,
162
; control and management of Delphi by,
73
,
77
â
80
,
95
,
180
,
184
,
186
â
87
,
286
,
288
â
89
,
350n12
; currency minted by,
159
,
159
,
199
; declining power and influence of,
132
,
192
â
93
,
238
â
39
; dedications by,
120
,
155
,
185
,
188
,
207
â
10
,
214
,
238
,
349n3
,
350n12
; and defense of Delphi,
78
,
150
,
161
,
178
; and Delian league,
122
; First Sacred War and,
144
â
45
; as “general council of Greece,”
205
â
6
; Hadrian's reorganization and,
226
â
27
; internal conflict at Delphi and,
148
; legal decrees by,
144
; membership in,
77
,
82
,
154
â
55
,
171
â
72
,
175
,
178
,
210
,
216
,
226
â
27
,
235
,
351n24
; members honored with dedications,
350n12
; military force organized by,
161
; Nero and the,
209
â
10
; Phocia and,
154
â
55
,
171
; Phocians fined by,
149
â
50
,
154
,
156
,
159
; Plutarch as member of,
216
; and political independence of Delphi,
130
; purpose of,
77
â
78
,
144
,
205
â
6
; Pythian games and,
123
â
24
; and rebuilding of Delphi,
94
,
103
,
146
,
157
,
159
,
162
,
340n16
; responsibilities of,
144
; Romans and role of,
226
â
28
,
286
â
87
; and scandal at Delphi,
195
â
96
; Thessaly and,
82
,
210
,
227
; and war against Crisa,
71
â
72
,
75
Amphipolis,
133
Amphissa,
52
,
152
,
161
â
62
,
170
,
186
,
188
,
215
; dedications at Delphi,
162
Anaxandridas,
219
Ancyra,
229
Andos,
132
Andromache
(Euripides),
135
Androsthenes,
153
Anecdota Delphica
(Curtius),
261
Anthony,
201
â
2
; and political value of Delphi,
201
â
2
Antigonus II of Macedon,
178
Antinous,
233
,
272
,
299
; cult at Delphi,
104
,
224
,
299
; dedication of statue of,
224
,
225
,
272
,
299
; discovery and excavation of statue dedication,
272
Antiocheia: dedications from,
184
Antiochus III: dedications honoring,
184
; “liberation” of Delphi by,
185
; Roman defeat of,
185
â
86
,
192
Antipatrus of Eleuthernai,
197
,
206
Apollas,
219
Apollo: ambiguity and Apollo Loxias,
29
; divination and,
29
,
40
; and establishment of Delphi,
31
â
33
; as god of colonization,
63
; linked to Imperial cult of Rome,
237
â
38
; and order
vs.
chaos,
39
â
40
; purification of,
35
; sites considered for oracle of,
32
,
51
.
See also
Apollo sanctuary at Delphi
;
Temple of Apollo
Apollo, or The Oracle at Delphi
(1891),
22
Apollonia in Illyria: dedications from,
110
â
11
Apollonius,
219
Apollo Patroos,
175
Apollo Ptoios, sanctuary of,
96
,
99
,
104
,
116
,
178
Apollo Pythios: dual nature of,
41
â
42
Apollo sanctuary at Delphi,
69
; Asclepieion shrine within,
226
; Cleisthenes and dedication of,
82
; entrances to,
294
; evidence of cult activity buried in,
48
; habitation at site of,
366n3
; location of,
Plate I
; perimeter wall and boundary of,
74
â
75
,
87
,
293
; photos of location,
3
; reconstruction depicting dedications at entrance to,
129
; reconstruction of,
16
,
278
; Roman agora adjacent to,
292
; “sacred way” in,
246
; Temple Terrace,
16
,
102
,
295
,
Plate II
.
See also
Pythia
;
Temple of Apollo
Apollo's arrival via chariot, pedimental sculpture,
101
Appius Claudius Censorinus,
200
Aratus of Achea,
179
arbitration: by the Amphictyony,
192
; Pythia and,
58
,
135
â
36
,
138
,
140
,
174
; by Roman corrector at Delphi and,
215
Arcadia: Arcadian confederacy,
135
â
36
,
146
; dedications by,
146
â
47
; Sparta as enemy of,
57
,
146
archaeological excavation: “big dig” (1892â1901),
42
,
267
â
74
,
277
; at Corycian cave,
283
â
84
; De le Coste-Messelière and,
275
â
76
; and European appropriation of antiquities,
255
â
56
; French,
43
,
251
,
263
â
67
,
275
â
78
(
See also
“big dig”
under this heading
); German scholarship and,
252
,
257
,
261
,
263
; Greek support of,
257
â
58
,
261
â
67
,
274
,
276
â
77
; Homolle and,
265
â
66
,
266
â
71
,
273
â
75
,
313n36
; Leake's maps and,
254
; literary sources and expectations,
42
,
233
â
34
,
254
,
256
â
57
,
274
; mudslide over excavated area,
277
; Müller's,
258
; of oldest buildings at site,
294
â
95
; Pomtow and,
265
â
66
,
273
,
275
; in progress,
270
,
271
; Raike's maps and,
254
; relocation of Castri and,
259
â
60
,
267
,
269
â
70
; Replat and site reconstruction,
274
â
75
; Spon and Wheler expedition,
251
,
253
; Stuart and Revett expedition,
251
; war and interruption of,
272
,
275
,
278
â
82