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Journal | Axon
Journal issue | 1 | 1 | 2017
Research Article | Sepulchral Cippus of Dolichas

Sepulchral Cippus of Dolichas

Abstract

Two funeral monuments, whose texts can be situated between the seventh and the sixth centuries BC, were found within a few decades of each other in Vlachomandra, an Aetolian village between Naupactus and the federal centre of Thermo. The sepulchral cippus of Dolichas seems to be the most ancient: as a matter of fact, it probably draws from a poetical popular repertoire that precedes the spreading of Homer’s epic corpus, which instead is visible in the other inscription, that is the sepulchral cippus of Promathos.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Aug. 27, 2016 | Accepted: Nov. 6, 2016 | Published June 30, 2017 | Language: it

Keywords Oggetto parlanteEtoliaPromathosOmeroNaupattoEpitaffioTermoCippi sepolcraliVlachomandraDolichas


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