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Das Prosodion des Eumelos. Literarische Propaganda und politische Identitätsstiftung im 4. Jh. v. Chr.

The "Prosodion of the Messenians", dedicated to the Delian Apollo, is believed to have been composed by the poet Eumelos of Corinth in the 8th or 7th century BC. Considering the political situation of Messenia, Corinth and the Delian amphiktiony in archaic times, it is far more likely, that this prosodion was written and presented in the 4th century BC soon after the foundation of the new Messenian state. Together with the ´creation` of Messenian history it served as an act of political propaganda as well as a media of creating Messenian political identity.

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