Sulla's Agalmation of Pythian Apollo: Protective Amulet or Miniature Oracle?
According to Plutarch (Sulla 29.11–12), Sulla, when he went into battle, always carried in his bosom a little golden image of Apollo from Delphi. F. J. Dölger argued in an influential article that this image was a battle amulet, but there is no evidence that especially the Delphic or Pythian Apollo...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 45 - 61 |
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