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Headword: Orgeônes
Adler number: omicron,511
Translated headword: orgeones
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] those who 'orgize' to privately established gods. To 'orgize' is to perform the 'orgia' of the gods, that is, mysteries[1] and usages. [Book] 4 of Laws [says]: "No internal acquisition of shrines in private houses. He that is shown to have acquired additional ones and to be "orgizing", other than the public [cults]."[2] Seleukos in his Memorandum of Solon's Axones[3] says that those holding gatherings about certain heroes or gods are called orgeones. Then, by transference, they call the priests by this name too. At any rate Antimachos in Lyde [writes]: "by descent Kabarnians, he made them renowned orgeones".[4] Similarly Aeschylus in Mysians, addressing the priest of Kaikos: "Hail, first orgeon of the river Kaikos, may you save the masters with Paionian prayers".[5] About the orgeones Philochoros, too, has written:[6] "compulsory for the phratores to accept both the orgeones and the homogalaktes, whom we call gennetai".[7]
Greek Original:
Orgeônes: hoi tois idiai aphidrumenois theois orgiazontes. orgiazein de esti ta tôn theôn orgia telein, toutesti mustêria kai nomima. Nomôn d#: mê kektêsthai esô en idiais oikiais hiera. ton de phanenta kektêmenon hetera kai orgiazonta plên ta dêmosia. Seleukos d' en tôi hupomnêmati tôn Solônos Axonôn orgeônas phêsi kaleisthai tous sullogous echontas peri tinas hêrôas ê theous. êdê de metapherontes kai tous hiereas houtô kalousin. ho goun Antimachos en têi Ludêi: geneai Kabarnous thêken abakleas orgeônas. kai hoion ho Aischulos en Musois, ton hierea tou Kaïkou prosagoreuôn: potamou Kaïkou chaire prôtos orgeôn, euchais de sôsois despotas paiôniais. peri de tôn orgeônôn gegraphe kai Philochoros: tous de phratoras epanankes dechesthai kai tous orgeônas kai tous homogalaktas, hous gennêtas kaloumen.
Notes:
See also omicron 509, omicron 510, omicron 512. The present entry is also in Photius (Lexicon omicron439 Theodoridis, with other references there).
[1] cf. omicron 515.
[2] Actually Book 10, section 910B, of Plato's Laws (web address 1, cf. omicron 516). Possibly delta here stands for deka/tw|, 'tenth' (so Ruhnken), rather than for numeric '4'.
[3] FGrH 341 F1. (For Seleukos see generally sigma 200.)
[4] Antimachus [alpha 2681] fr.67 Wyss (and West), line 1. Elsewhere this is quoted with e)/nqa instead of gene/a| and o)rgeiw=nas instead of o)rgew=nas, making a hexameter.
[5] Aeschylus fr. 413a (144 Radt), lines 6-7. (For the river Kaikos, cf. kappa 1166.)
[6] FGrH 328 F35a.
[7] These obscure kinship (or fictive kinship) groups of classical Athens are discussed by Andrewes 1961 and Lambert 1998; cf. gamma 147.
References:
Andrewes, A. (1961), 'Philochoros on phratries', Journal of Hellenic Studies, 81: 1-15
P. Foucart, Les Associations religieuses chez les Grecs, Paris 1873
M. Guarducci, Orgeones e tiasoti, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione classica 13 (1935) 332-340
W.S. Ferguson, The Attic Orgeones, "Harvard Theological Review" 37 (1944) 73-79
N.I. Pantazopoulos, Orgeones. Paratereseis eis ta neotera epigraphica euremata kai tas pegas katholou tou Attikou somateiakou dikaiou, Polemon 3 (1948) 97-128
S.D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1993
Y. Ustinova, Orgeones in Phratries: a mechanism of social integration in Attica, Kernos 9 (1996) 227-242
R.C.T. Parker, s.v. Orgeones in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Eds. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (New York 1996), 1074
N.F. Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; law; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 26 October 2002@13:33:30.
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