Abstract
Publication of two new gold epistomia unearthed during systematic excavations of a cemetery at the site Mnemata (Graves) in Alphá, near Eleutherna. They belong to category B, the so-called Mnemosyne- or Underworld-Topography-texts: the new epistomion B14 from grave 84 was found folded and is identical to that incised on B3–5, B7–8 and the concise B13, except for one minor misspelling; the other epistomion B15 from grave 56 betrays more similarities with the Cretan epistomia B12 and B6 in the recognition dialogue, and is only the second text from Crete which places the spring in the Underworld topography to the left, as B12.
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- Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry: The Special Case of Epinician
- Classicising ‘Pindar’: Quotation, Canonisation and Early Reception
- A Triangle in the Law-court: Speakers-Opponents-Audiences and the Use of the Imperative
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