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Headword:
Theophoria
Adler number: theta,198
Translated headword: divine possession
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] religious frenzy.[1]
"The fierce winds of [Atys'] divine possession were cooled."[2]
Greek Original:Theophoria: enthousiasmos. agria d' autou epsuchthê chalepês pneumata theuphoriês.
Notes:
[1] On 'enthusiasm' (in this technical sense) see
epsilon 1366.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.220.3-4 (Dioskorides/
Dioscorides), by beating his timbrel the
Gallus Atys drives away a threatening lion, already at
epsilon 4078; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 85-86); (vol. II, 245-246); and further extracts from this epigram at
lambda 74,
mu 1394,
omicron 374,
tau 1167, and
theta 6. On the Galli, eunuch priests of the Phrygian goddess Kybele (
kappa 2586), see
gamma 41 and
gamma 42.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
Keywords: definition; gender and sexuality; imagery; meter and music; mythology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 January 2006@13:53:45.
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