greek-customsfeatured in 7 works
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
- HistoriesThurii (Magna Graecia) · -425explains
- HellenicaAthens · -354explains
- CyropaediaAthens · -354explains
- AgesilausAthens · -354explains
- Quaestiones GraecaeChaeronea · 120explains
- Description of Greece— · 180explains
- DeipnosophistaeNaucratis · 230explains
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