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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

Note 139 — Chapter II · THE ANTHESTERIA. The Ritual of Ghosts and Sprites.

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Fillets are specially characteristic of sacrificial victims. Herodotus VII. 197 describes Athamas as στέμμασι πυκασθείς.

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