Chapter 10

The Delian part is exclusively Ionian and insular both in style and sympathy; Delos and no other is Apollo’s chosen seat: but the second part is as definitely continental; Delos is ignored and Delphi alone is the important centre of Apollo’s worship. From this it is clear that the two parts need not be of one date—The first, indeed, is ascribed (Scholiast on Pindar _Nem_. ii, 2) to Cynaethus of Chios (_fl_. 504 B.C.), a date which is obviously far too low; general considerations point rather to the eighth century. …