Dalla Puglia all’Epiro: Gaios Polfennios figlio di Dazos da Brindisi proxenos degli Epiroti

An inscription from the oracular shrine of Dodona informs that proxeny was granted to Gaios Polfennios from Brindisi between 175 and 170 BC. The author’s study of this document in connection with the activities of Italikoi in the Mediterranean and the historical context of the decree casts new light, on the one hand, on contacts between the two shores of the Adriatic in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, on the other hand, on the role of Gaios Polfennios in Epirus on the eve of the third Macedonian war