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- Title
When Pheidippides met Pan: problems with epiphany.
- Authors
Bowden, Hugh
- Abstract
Herodotus does not say that Pheidippides saw Pan, but that Pan "fell in with" ( I peripiptei i ) Pheidippides. In his I Histories i , Herodotus acknowledges that the Greek victory over Xerxes' invasion was the result of the actions of the gods as well as of the human actors.[1] He is, however, reticent about precisely what the gods did to achieve this. The Greeks themselves very publicly acknowledged the role of the gods in the victory, by making grand dedications at their various sanctuaries, as Herodotus is very willing to report.[2] Herodotus' successors, from Thucydides until the present day, have taken his reticence even further, and have written the gods entirely out of their narratives of ancient Greek history.
- Subjects
ODORS; ETHNOCENTRISM; EPIPHANY; TRP channels
- Publication
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2022, Vol 65, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
0076-0730
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bics/qbac009