IL MONDO DORICO DI APOLLONIO RODIO. CONSIDERAZIONI SULLA FONDAZIONE DI RODI E LA FONDAZIONE DI CNIDO

The paper discusses the surviving fragments and the ancient testimonies on two of the foundation poems by Apollonius of Rhodes related to the Doric East-Mediterranean Pentapolis, the Foundation of Rhodes and the Foundation of Knidos. One of the fragments of the Ῥόδου κτίσις recalls the Thessalian roots of the founders, while the other is a testimony about an aition for a fireless sacrifice, justified by Apollonius in a different manner from later sources such as Diodorus. The only extant testimony of the Κνίδου κτίσις is another aition (for a toponym) and recalls a fight between Heracles and a Thracian man.