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Orphic Rites

Initiatory and purificatory rites attributed to the mythical Orpheus, built on a distinctive cosmogony and teaching the soul's destiny, with ritual abstentions for initiates.

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  1. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  2. Description of Greece
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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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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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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Convivales · 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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Moderate

Description of Greece · Pausanias

Moderate

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

Moderate

Description of Greece · Pausanias

Moderate

Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

Moderate