greek-customsfeatured in 6 works
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
- HistoriesThurii (Magna Graecia) · -425explains
- GeographyAmaseia · 24explains
- Quaestiones RomanaeChaeronea · 120explains
- Quaestiones GraecaeChaeronea · 120explains
- Description of Greece— · 180explains
- DeipnosophistaeNaucratis · 230explains
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis
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