I naopi di guerra locresi nei conti di Delfi (CID II, 31): nuove prospettive di ricerca sulla terza guerra sacra.

With our doctoral thesis devoted to the Third Sacred War (356-346), which was discussed in June 2013 at the University of Namur (Belgium), we have tried to make a new historical reconstruction of this conflict, which represents is an important step in Philip of Macedonia attempt to reach hegemony on Greece. The contribution of Delphic epigraphy proved decisive : the accounts of the rebuilding of the temple of Apollo provide us, in fact, with valuable information about the history, dynamics and consequences of the conflict. Here, we will analyze in particular the issue of participation in the war of the Locrian ethnos. These Locrians are mentioned as "naopoioi in the time of war" in the accounts of Delphi, during the period of the Phokian occupation of the sanctuary. However, their exact geographical origin is never clarified. With the help of chronology and historical criticism, we will try to give a alternative interpretation to the one proposed by Lucien Lerat (Les Locriens de l'Ouest, Paris, 1952 [BEFAR 176]), who considered these Lokrians to be a group of "collaborators" from the Western Lokris. Our analysis will bring new insights on the history and the territorial organization of Lokris in the classical age and the problem, still unsolved, of the Phokian coinage minted at the time of the Third Sacred War.