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844 ARTEMIS-BRITOMARTIS AND APOLLO DELPHINIOS
Apollo
Delphi-
nios es-
pecially
associated
with this
native
Goddess
in Crete.
His Knos-
sian tem-
ple a
central
sanctuary.
Whatever the native name by which he may have been known, the
persistent Cretan tradition makes Apollo Delphinios the special consort—the
relationship being now, naturally, fraternal—of Artemis Diktynna, or Brito-
martis. In places, even, she bore the name AeXfavia.1
Temples and altars of this God were, according to Plutarch,- associated
in many towns by the Greeks with those of Artemis Diktynna. Nor was
the transformed and adapted cult of the old archer consort of the Minoan
Goddess anywhere more deeply rooted than in Hellenic Knossos where the
temple of the Delphinian Apollo took the first place. It may be gathered
from inscriptions that copies of treaties between various Cretan cities 3 were
preserved in this temple, the discovery of the site of which might throw
much light on the history of Hellenic Crete.4 This was in fact the central
sanctuary of the Island.
p. xxxi. Hesychios confirms the identification
of the youthful figure with o Zeis irapa Kp^o-tV,
the Cretan Zeus : fi\\av<><; (erroneously written
TcA^avos).
1 In Attica and Thessaly she receives this
epithet (see Farnell, Cults of the Greek States,
i, p. 466).
2 De Sol. anim., x (p. 93 Rst.).
5 E. g. that between Lato and Olous
C. I. G. 2554) 6t/jiei' Se aAAa>/ trraXav iv Ketixrcru
iv tio Icpio tui 'AttoXXoivu^ t!o AeXfpiviov. See,
too, on this Hoeck, Kreta, iii, pp. 478, 479.
4 It is to be hoped that the British School
may some day succeed in discovering the site
of this temple. It is tempting to connect
with it part of an early Doric capital that lies
on the steep a little East of the plateau of the
acropolis hill of the Hellenic town.
Fig. 559. Artemis-Britomartis, holding
Laurel-spray and Bow. Red Cornelian
Intaglio from Site of the Cretan Cher-
sonesos, c. 450 b. c. (j)
Apollo
Delphi-
nios es-
pecially
associated
with this
native
Goddess
in Crete.
His Knos-
sian tem-
ple a
central
sanctuary.
Whatever the native name by which he may have been known, the
persistent Cretan tradition makes Apollo Delphinios the special consort—the
relationship being now, naturally, fraternal—of Artemis Diktynna, or Brito-
martis. In places, even, she bore the name AeXfavia.1
Temples and altars of this God were, according to Plutarch,- associated
in many towns by the Greeks with those of Artemis Diktynna. Nor was
the transformed and adapted cult of the old archer consort of the Minoan
Goddess anywhere more deeply rooted than in Hellenic Knossos where the
temple of the Delphinian Apollo took the first place. It may be gathered
from inscriptions that copies of treaties between various Cretan cities 3 were
preserved in this temple, the discovery of the site of which might throw
much light on the history of Hellenic Crete.4 This was in fact the central
sanctuary of the Island.
p. xxxi. Hesychios confirms the identification
of the youthful figure with o Zeis irapa Kp^o-tV,
the Cretan Zeus : fi\\av<><; (erroneously written
TcA^avos).
1 In Attica and Thessaly she receives this
epithet (see Farnell, Cults of the Greek States,
i, p. 466).
2 De Sol. anim., x (p. 93 Rst.).
5 E. g. that between Lato and Olous
C. I. G. 2554) 6t/jiei' Se aAAa>/ trraXav iv Ketixrcru
iv tio Icpio tui 'AttoXXoivu^ t!o AeXfpiviov. See,
too, on this Hoeck, Kreta, iii, pp. 478, 479.
4 It is to be hoped that the British School
may some day succeed in discovering the site
of this temple. It is tempting to connect
with it part of an early Doric capital that lies
on the steep a little East of the plateau of the
acropolis hill of the Hellenic town.
Fig. 559. Artemis-Britomartis, holding
Laurel-spray and Bow. Red Cornelian
Intaglio from Site of the Cretan Cher-
sonesos, c. 450 b. c. (j)