Fedriad , the Fedriad rock [1] ( Greek Φαιδριάδες ) [2] - two brown-brown [3] impregnable cliffs 200-300 meters high cliffs in Greece , in Fokida , in , towering on the southern slope of Parnassus , above the Kastal spring , 200 meters above the ancient city of Delphi , at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level. The rocks reflect the rays of the sun. The ancient Greeks called them therefore the Fedriads (Brilliant). Western rock was called in antiquity Navpria ( “Ναυπλία” ), now Rodinia ( Ροδιν Роз - Pink), and the east - in antiquity of Giampaea ( “Υάμπιια” ) [4] , and now - Flembukos ( Φλεμπο ) - Plamen ( Φ2 ) , and now - Flembukos ( Φλεμπο ) - Plamen ( λμπιια) - 4 , and now - Flembukos ( Φλεμπο ) - Plamen ( Φμπιια ) - [4] From time immemorial there existed a Delphic oracle . On the sloping slope, at the foot of the Rodini cliff, is the . At the foot of the Flambukos rock is the . From the cliff Flembukos threw sentenced to death blasphemers and blasphemers [5] . Rocks were cut by the river Plistos , which flows through the gorge between Parnassus and Mount [5] [1] [6] [7] .
Fedriad | |
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Greek Φαιδριάδες | |
View of Delphi and Fedriad | |
Location | |
A country |
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Periphery | Central greece |
Peripheral unit | Phocis |
Mountain system | Pind |
Ridge or array | Parnassus |
Fedriads consist of dark limestone and were formed in the Jurassic period .
The to Dawlid and [5] ran along the valley of Plytos.
Herodotus transmits the temple delphic legend that when in 480 BC e. during the Greek-Persian war, part of the troops of Xerxes I went from the city of to Delphi and to the Corinthian isthmus . The oracle of Delphi on behalf of the god Apollo forbade touching the temple treasures and said that he would be able to protect them. “When the barbarians appeared at the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, the perunas fell from the sky, and with Parnassus, two detached peaks fell from Parnassus and struck many Persians.” The surviving Persians fled to Boeotia . Delphic heroes Philak and Avtona pursued and killed the Persians. Above the sanctuary of Athena Pronei was a site dedicated to the hero Philak [8] . The plot of AvtoNoya’s hero was located at the foot of the Giampaea rock, not far from the Kastal spring [9] .
During the Gallic invasion in 278 BC. e. Brenn led the Galatians to Delphi, but was defeated in battle by the Greeks with the help of miraculous signs given by the god Apollo: the Galati were struck by lightning, frost and snow, an earthquake, rocks threw down on them, they were haunted by "panic" fear and madness. Galatians also died of hunger [10] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Phocis // Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities / ed.-comp. F. Lubker ; Edited by members of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy F. Gelbke , L. Georgievsky , F. Zelinsky , V. Kansky , M. Kutorgi and P. Nikitin . - SPb. , 1885. - p. 1037-1038.
- ↑ Fedriada // Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities / ed.-comp. F. Lubker ; Edited by members of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy F. Gelbke , L. Georgievsky , F. Zelinsky , V. Kansky , M. Kutorgi and P. Nikitin . - SPb. , 1885. - p. 1020.
- ↑ Sokolov, Gleb Ivanovich . Delphi . - M .: Art, 1972. - p. 10. - 184 p. - (Cities and museums of the world).
- ↑ Ὑάμπεια // Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities / ed.-comp. F. Lubker ; Edited by members of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy F. Gelbke , L. Georgievsky , F. Zelinsky , V. Kansky , M. Kutorgi and P. Nikitin . - SPb. , 1885. - p. 647.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Parnas / / Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities / ed.-comp. F. Lubker ; Edited by members of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy F. Gelbke , L. Georgievsky , F. Zelinsky , V. Kansky , M. Kutorgi and P. Nikitin . - SPb. , 1885. - p. 987.
- ↑ Strabo . Geography. IX, 3, 3
- ↑ Delphi: Album / Text by Kazimierz Michalowski; Photogr. Andrzej Dzevanovsky. - Warsaw: Arcades, 1977. - 24 p. - (Art and culture of the ancient world).
- ↑ Pausanias . Description of Hellas. X, 8, 4
- ↑ Herodotus . Story. VIII, 34—39
- ↑ Pausanias . Description of Hellas. X, 23, 3-5