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First-Fruits Offering (Aparche)

The dedication of the first or choicest portion of a harvest, catch, or spoils to a god as thanksgiving and acknowledgment of divine ownership.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
    explains
  2. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  3. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  4. Quaestiones Graecae
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains
  5. Description of Greece
    · 180
    explains
  6. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
    explains

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Graecae · Plutarch

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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