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Purification and Lustration (Katharsis)

Ritual cleansing — by water, blood, fire, or fumigation — to remove pollution (miasma) from birth, death, bloodshed, or contact with the sacred, restoring fitness for cult.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
    explains
  2. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
    explains
  3. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains
  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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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Graecae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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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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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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