Author: V. Magro
Download article as .pdf: Un dossier di appunti sul culto di Apollo archegete in Sicilia. Un culto tra Egeo e Mediterraneo
The article is proposed as a dossier of notes, a corpus of news, hypotheses, studies, not without in-depth analysis, on issues still debated today by historians and archaeologists, on the foundation of Naxos of Sicily (734 BC) and on the presence of the undiscovered altar of Apollo Archegetes which can be found in the sources of Appian and Thucydides. Precisely Thucydides’ sources hand down an altar near today’s Schisò Bay which would soon have been elevated to a pan-Sikeliot cult, that is a cult recognized by all the people of Hellenic lineage who cohabited the island, as supported by historical I. Malkin and by the anthropologist M. Detienne. This would open up other lines of investigation still examined and discussed today, such as the presence of Nassi people in the first Hellenic colonial expedition to Sicily by the Euboeans and the probable function of oracle of Delos, even before that of Delphi, which will assert itself on the colonial horizon only starting from the first twenty-five years of the 7th century BC.
