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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

Note 138 — Chapter II · THE ANTHESTERIA. The Ritual of Ghosts and Sprites.

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Now in the Museum at Chicago. American Journal of Archaeology, 1899, pl. IV. The vase presents some difficulties, the discussion of which would be irrelevant here. The figure of Salmoneus madly and sacrilegiously counterfeiting Zeus and holding his thunder-bolt is I think certain.

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