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Headword:
Βάκις
Adler number: beta,47
Translated headword: Bakis, Bacis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An epithet of Peisistratos.[1]
[Bakis] was a chresmologue.[2] But
Philetas of
Ephesos says that there were three Bakises: the one from Eleon in Boiotia, the Athenian, and the Arkadian from the city of Kaphye[3] - the one also called Kydas and Aletes.[4] Theopompos in [book] 9 of
Philippika has many extraordinary stories about this Bakis, including the fact that on one occasion he purified the mad womenfolk of the Spartans --
Apollo having given him to them as purifier.[5]
Βάκις: ἐπίθετον Πεισιστράτου. ἦν δὲ χρησμολόγος. Φιλήτας δὲ ὁ Ἐφέσιός φησι τρεῖς Βάκιδας: ὁ μὲν ἐξ Ἐλεῶνος τῆς Βοιωτίας, ὁ δὲ Ἀθηναῖος, ὁ δὲ Ἀρκὰς ἐκ πόλεως Καφύης, ὃς καὶ Κύδας ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Ἀλήτης. Θεόπομπος δὲ ἐν τῇ θ# τῶν Φιλιππικῶν ἄλλα τε πολλὰ περὶ τούτου τοῦ Βάκιδος ἱστορεῖ παράδοξα, καὶ ὅτι ποτὲ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τὰς γυναῖκας μανείσας ἐκάθηρεν, Ἀπόλλωνος τούτοις τοῦτον καθαρτὴν δόντος.
Notes:
On Bakis see generally OCD(3) 230-1 (under "Bacis"); it notes that his oracles were mentioned from
Herodotus onwards and that "[t]o cope with the mass of oracles from manifestly different dates, later authors assumed several Bacides".
[1] Sc. the C6-BCE tyrant of
Athens (
pi 1474). The precise import of the nickname is not obvious from this bare reference to it, but
Herodotus 5.90.2 mentions that the Peisistratids had kept an oracle-collection on the Acropolis (which the invading Spartans who expelled the family in 510 took away with them).
[2] A word of several related meanings all to do with oracles: -collector, -speaker, -expounder.
[3] More exactly
Kaphyai; see
kappa 1149.
[4] cf.
kappa 2607.
[5] FGrH 115 F77 (= scholion to
Aristophanes,
Peace 1071); cf.
kappa 40, and see generally R. Parker,
Miasma (Oxford 1983) 20.
J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978), ch. 5
Keywords: biography; geography; historiography; history; medicine; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 August 2001@04:39:40.
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