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Oracles and payola

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

When we look into what the oracles said we immediately see that they could be very dangerous. It is not that the y don’t tell the truth (or at least the ones that have reached us do) the point is that they had to be interpreted, but the people who received them was usually wrong and Apollon was more ... more


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BIOGRAPHY

 

ESPR In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more