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Title: Anaphe, Aeschrology and Apollo Aigletes
Subtitle: Apollonius Rhodius 4.1711-1730
Author(s): BREMMER, Jan N.
Journal: Caeculus
Volume: 6    Date: 2005   
Pages: 18-34
DOI: 10.2143/CAE.6.0.2004665

Abstract :
In the summer of 1903 Wilamowitz celebrated his silver wedding by offering his wife a journey to Greece. He naturally visited Thera (Santorini), which his son-in-law Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen (1864-1947) had excavated at his own expense. Unfortunately, the death of Mommsen on 1 November caused Wilamowitz to break off his visit to the island, but not before he had noticed that, “in der Abendsonne schien die nahe Insel Anaphe Feuer zu fangen; danach heisst sie” (1930: 271). His etymology is of course taken from Apollonius of Rhodes (4.1718), who in a short passage in the fourth book of his Argonautica briefly mentions a local Anaphiote festival that will be the subject of this contribution.

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