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7.6 Prophecy in the Roman empire<br />

7.6c(ii) Damianos the prophet (late third century A.D.)<br />

Advice on matters of rirual and changes in religious procedure were a standard<br />

part of the business of oracles.<br />

See further: Lane Fox (1986) 216-17; Fontenrose (1988) 147-9.<br />

Didyma: Inschriften 504.15-16 = Fontenrose (1988) no. 30<br />

Good Fortune<br />

Your prophet Damianos asks: 'Since in your sanctuary and altar-circle of all the gods he<br />

has never seen an altar of your most holy sister, his own ancestral goddess, Soteira Kore, 1<br />

and since it grieves him as a lover of the gods that this should be so, he asks you to<br />

declare, Lord of Didyma Helios Apollo, whether you would permit him to establish<br />

beside the altar of Demeter Karpophoros

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