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The Scapegoat (Pharmakos)

The ritual expulsion (or symbolic beating/driving-out) of a human scapegoat to carry away a city's pollution, performed at certain festivals to purify the community.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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Key passages(9)

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Graecae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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