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Supplication (Hiketeia)

The ritualized act of a vulnerable person seeking protection by clasping the knees or an altar of a powerful host or god, placing the supplicant under sacred, inviolable protection.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  3. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  4. Agesilaus
    Athens · -354
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  5. Quaestiones Graecae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  6. Description of Greece
    · 180
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  7. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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