Athens' magnificent refounding, also in 426 BCE, …
Years: 426BCE - 426BCE
Athens' magnificent refounding, also in 426 BCE, of the Ionian festival of Apollo on the island of Delos, where the Delian League had been established in 478 BCE is surely in part a response to Dorian Heraclea. (Additional motives include desire for expiation for the plague, which in the winter of 427-426 BCE has ravaged Athens a second time.)
Of the two great Panhellenic sanctuaries, Olympia in 428 BCE had taken an ugly anti-Athenian look, while the oracle of Delphi had actually approved the Heraclea colony.
Athens, through Delos, is creating or inflating religious propaganda possibilities of its own.
The same is true of an Athenian invitation to the Greeks at large, also (possibly) in the 420s BCE, to bring offerings of first fruits to Eleusis.
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- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Greece, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
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- Iron Age Europe
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Archidamian War
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Years: 426BCE - 426BCE
Locations
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Greece, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Archidamian War
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions