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Prayer and Hymn

The verbal address of the gods — petitionary prayer (standing, hands raised, often with a vow) and sung hymns of praise accompanying cult acts.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  3. Memorabilia
    Athens · -354
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  4. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  5. Symposium
    Athens · -354
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  6. Economics
    Athens · -354
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  7. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  8. Quaestiones Graecae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  9. Description of Greece
    — · 180
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  10. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 15.52↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 6.63↗explains

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Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 36↗explains

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Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.4.14↗explains

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Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.3↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.7↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 15.63↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 1.132.2↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.7.2↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.15.11↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 14.24↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 15.50↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 6.62↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 1.31.4↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 1.44.2↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 1.87.1↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 4.35.3↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 7.54.2↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 9.61.3↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.20.3↗explains

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