Hippocrate et le sanctuaire de la Délienne à Thasos

Abstract

En raison de lectures différentes entre plusieurs manuscrits, on considérait jusqu’à présent comme incertaine l’adresse d’un des patients d’Hippocrate mentionné au livre III des Épidémies. Grâce à la découverte récente du Délion, il est désormais assuré que ce patient résidait à proximité de ce sanctuaire, dans la partie la plus septentrionale de l’espace urbain.

Recent epigraphic research in Thasos, Aegean Thrace & Samothrace (2005-2015)

“…Livia thus received divine honours on Thasos before her death in AD 29 and also before her official apotheosis in Rome in AD 42, in the reign of Claudius. The other dedication, found in the same area in 1971, was consecrated to Olympian Hadrian, saviour and founder, and to his wife Sabina (Grandjean 2012(Grandjean -2013). This new text joins two other dedications and an honorific inscription dedicated to the same emperor.…”

“…The most important discovery of the last decade has been another sanctuary mainly dedicated to a female divinity, namely the Delion, situated north of the ancient city, against the circuit wall (Grandjean and Salviat 2012: 134). It has been identified thanks to an inscription on the entrance porch (Grandjean and Salviat 2006). Subsequent review has allowed us to recognize that this sanctuary was mentioned by Hippocrates in a poorly transmitted passage of the Epidemics (Grandjean andSalviat 2012-2013).…”

“…Two epitaphs, discovered some time ago, have now been published. The first, consisting of two names and an epigram, is inscribed on a sarcophagus discovered at Molos (Grandjean 2012(Grandjean -2013. It tells of Pankratides and his son Euphrillos, also called Theodoros or Theodas; the former is qualified as 'father of the city', a title conferred a number of times to Thasian notables in the Imperial period.…”

“…Civic spaces are regularly referred to in Thasian inscriptions (Graham 2000;Grandjean and Salviat 2000). Some are well known and have been well explored archaeologically.…”

“…This ephemeral heir of the Roman empire, between his adoption in AD 4 and his relegation in AD 6, was endowed with titles such as 'son of the divine Augustus' and 'euergetes by ancestral tradition', and was honoured with a statue in the agora. A partially preserved statue base of the Imperial period, bearing the mutilated name Hēragoras has also been listed among the city's honorific inscriptions (Grandjean 2012(Grandjean -2013. Other texts of this type, previously published, have been more fully restored or enhanced by new commentaries.…”