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A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life

Note * — Chapter XXI · The Great Festivals of Athens.

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We do not possess the official chant of the Mystæ used on their march to Eleusia. Very possibly it was of a swift riotous nature like the Bacchinals’ song in Euripides’s Bacchinals (well translated by Way or by Murray).

[+] This was about the only considerable town in Attica outside of Athens.

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