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...

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Published in:	Classical Philology Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 45 - 61
Main Author:	Faraone, Christopher A.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Jan2021
Subjects:	Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 138 B.C.-78 B.C. Amulets Superstition Oracles Battles
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost