Book contents
- Frontmatter
- THE TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- BOOK II RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE DORIANS
- CHAP. I
- CHAP. II
- CHAP. III
- CHAP. IV
- CHAP. V
- CHAP. VI
- CHAP. VII
- CHAP. VIII
- CHAP. IX
- CHAP. X
- CHAP. XI
- CHAP. XII
- APPENDIX
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- Plate section
CHAP. III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- THE TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- BOOK I HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- BOOK II RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE DORIANS
- CHAP. I
- CHAP. II
- CHAP. III
- CHAP. IV
- CHAP. V
- CHAP. VI
- CHAP. VII
- CHAP. VIII
- CHAP. IX
- CHAP. X
- CHAP. XI
- CHAP. XII
- APPENDIX
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- Plate section
Summary
On the universal diffusion of the worship of Apollo through the Peloponnese, and afterwards all Greece, by the Doric migration. On its subsequent extension in foreign parts by the authority of the Delphian oracle.
1. We now come to the third epoch of the propagation of the worship of Apollo. The first embraced the earliest migrations of the Doric nation, when the great temples at Delphi, Cnosus, and Delos were founded from Tempe. The second period is that of the maritime supremacy of Minos, when the coasts of Asia and Greece were covered with groves and expiatory altars of this god. The third comprehends the chief migration of the Dorians, and others occasioned by it. Through these means Apollo became the principal deity in the Peloponnese, where, in early times, we find few traces of his existence. That the Carnean Apollo of the Lacedæmonians, and the Apollo Nomius of the Arcadians, form no exceptions to our assertion, will be proved in a subsequent inquiry into the nature and origin of these worships.
After the Doric conquest of the Peloponnese, the chief temples were every where consecrated to Apollo. We have already spoken of the sanctuary of Apollo Pythaeus, in which the Argive confederacy held their meetings; nor was the temple of Apollo Lyceus in the market-place less celebrated.
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- History and Antiquities of the Doric Race , pp. 276 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1830