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Agathon and Kassandra ( IG IX. 1 2 4. 1750)

2003; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 123; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3246258

2041-4099

Phyllis . Fraser,

Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

Abstract The author discusses an inscription of the late fourth or early third century BC carved on a bronze plaque found in the first excavations at Dodona, on which a Zakynthian, by name Agathon, records a link of proxeny between himself and his family and the Epirote koinon of the Molossians, through Kassandra, the Trojan prophetess. The plaque is decorated by a prominent phallus with testicles, which the author interprets as referring to the continuity, past and future, of the γενεά of Agathon. Other explanations of the whole piece have been proposed, and the present essay is intended only to explore the possibility of this interpretation.