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The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n


\nBrill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 6. Brill: Leiden and Boston 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

From the back cover:<\/strong> Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus<\/em> is the first book-length study of one of Greece\u2019s most cited nymph sanctuaries. The volume includes a revised catalog, extensive new commentaries on the cave\u2019s famous inscriptions, and a first-time investigation of the site\u2019s topographical and archaeological layout. Also known as Alogopati or Karapla cave, the Pharsalian shrine holds a special place among ancient nymph caves as the only such site to feature an inscribed poetic chronicle of the shrine\u2019s foundation and its founder, the mysterious nymph worshipper Pantalces. Based on years of fieldwork and archival research, Cave of the Nymphs<\/em> challenges some commonly held views about the origin of this rock-cut \u2018tale\u2019 and offers a fresh perspective for understanding the Pharsalian cave in its proper historical context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Preview in Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Reviewed in: Journal of Greek Archaeology<\/em> 6, 2021, 413-418 (M. Mili).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beliefs of Modern Greece. An Annotated Translation of Leo Allatius’ De graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a017th century treatise\u00a0De graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(‘On the Beliefs of Some Greeks Today’) is considered to be one of our foremost sources on Medieval and Early Modern Greek folklore. Written by the celebrated humanist\u00a0and keeper of the Vatican Library\u00a0Leo Allatius\u00a0(1587-1669), it\u00a0<\/em>holds a special place in Western\u00a0literature as the earliest known scholarly treatment of vampire superstition. Never translated into a modern language,\u00a0until now this work\u00a0has been accessible to\u00a0modern audiences only through excerpts quoted by later authors such as\u00a0J.C. Lawson (Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: a Study in Survivals<\/em>, 1910<\/a>) and Montague Summers (The Vampire:\u00a0His Kith and Kin<\/em>, 1928<\/a>).\u00a0Beliefs of Modern Greece\u00a0<\/em>is the first complete translation of the\u00a01645 edition, accompanied by a commentary and an annotated Latin text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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