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13 mars 2024
- doi: 10.4000/books.efa.16206
- isbn: 978-2-86958-611-6
- eisbn: 978-2-86958-627-7
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Véronique Chankowski, « The sacred fortune: the Assets Statement », École française d’Athènes, ID : 10.4000/books.efa.16206
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Mythological accounts highlighted the striking contrast between an island with no natural resources and the wealth it enjoyed (Homeric Hymn to Apollo, v. 51‑61; Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, v. 260‑263). This wealth was quite relative compared with the other “great fortunes” of the classical period and the Hellenistic period, but the mythical accounts thereby consecrated what must have been a reaction shared by many pilgrims and observers of Delian life: the paradox of a tiny island that had b...