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Marriage Rites

The ceremonies binding a marriage — betrothal, bridal procession, veiling, ritual bath, and feast — transferring the bride to her husband's household and hearth.

How it traveled

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

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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