Re: CHAT: The Pythia (was: hi brethren)

At 06:56 25.3.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:

>Apollo was an ancient god.  His name is not of IE
>origin; he was taken into the eventual Greek pantheon from a non-Greek
>source, presumably one which existed in the Aegean area before the
>pre-Greek IE speakers move there.
We do have some evidence supporting his pre-Greek presence in the area: his
un-Greek name in Etruscan -- _Apuru_ -- and the assertion of Roman writers
that Apulia was named after him by the Etruscans.

The problem of course is that we don't know how widely and where the
Etruscans were spread in pre-IE times.  IIANM the language on the famous
Lemnos stela is however thought to be closely akin to Etruscan.   Isn't
that right, Ray?


/BP

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