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Amyklai, Burkert has pointed out. In the seventh or early sixth century, a colossal archaic helmeted effigy was made of bronze, taking the semi-aniconic form of a stout column with arms, holding a spear as well as the more familiar bow: "ancient and made without artistry," Pausanias thought.
506:, to judge from Pausanias' enumeration of the subjects of the reliefs. The podium contained the altar to Hyakinthos and was faced with bas-reliefs and there were more bas-reliefs on the stoa-like building that surrounded on three sides the colossal column-shaped statue of the god. The
482:"Except for the face and the tips of its feet and hands it looks like a bronze pillar. It has a helmet on its head, and a spear and a bow in its hands. The base of the statue is shaped like an altar, and Hyakinthos is said to be buried in it." (
477:, given an even later political interpretation, as celebrating "the political reconciliation of Doric Sparta (Apollo) with the Achaian population of Amyklai (Hyakinthos)" (Hellenic Ministry of Culture). Nothing is heard yet of Apollo's sister
651:"At the Hyakinthia, before the sacrifice to Apollo, they pass through a bronze door to dedicate the offerings of a divine hero to Hyakinthos in this altar; the door is on the left of the altar" (Pausanias).
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was Doric for wings— "wine uplifts men and lightens their spirit no less than wings do birds" he added by way of gloss: apparently it was hard for him to imagine an archaic winged
Dionysus.
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as the fifth of the surrounding settlements whose subjection initiated the history of Sparta, in the eighth century BC; the inhabitants of
Amyklai took their places among the
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votive figures and of votive figures from the
Geometric period, but with a gap in continuity between them: "it is clear that a radical reinterpretation has taken place"
498:
designed the Doric-Ionic temple complex later known as the "throne of Apollo". The archaic cult statue, set on the podium that was constructed to enclose the
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settlement lay on the slopes above the modern village of
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altar dedicated to
Hyakinthos, was surrounded by a virtual encyclopedia of
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Amyklai had its ancient origin as an
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has observed, instancing many examples of this break in cult during the "
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After the Spartan conquest, Amyklai continued to hold the
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Histoire politique et sociale jusqu’à la conquête romaine
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Traditionally Amyklai was associated the residence of
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Bathyclès de Magnésie et le trône d'Apollon à Amyklæ
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731:E. Buschor and W. von Massow, "Vom Amyklaion,"
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297:Community population
272:mountains, along the
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509:analemma
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270:Taygetus
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