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Headword: *(udrofori/a
Adler number: upsilon,68
Translated headword: Hydrophoria
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A festival of mourning at Athens for those who died in the flood, according to Apollonius.[1]
Greek Original:
*(udrofori/a: e(orth\ pe/nqimos *)aqh/nhsin e)pi\ toi=s e)n tw=| kataklusmw=| a)polome/nois, w(s *)apollw/nios.
Notes:
Likewise in Photius, Lexicon upsilon25 Theodoridis, and similarly elsewhere.
Probably part of several rituals, in the month of Anthesterion, connected with the Flood of Deucalion (delta 283).
cf. Pausanias 1.18.7; Plutarch, Sulla 14.6.
[1] Adler noted Naber's view that 'Apollonius' is corruptly transmitted, and she herself suggested (without going so far as to print) 'Apollodorus'. Orthodoxy nonetheless accepts that this is Apollonius of Acharnai [C2 BCE] FGrH 365 F4.
Reference:
H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 117
Keywords: aetiology; chronology; definition; ethics; historiography; mythology; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 November 2001@06:22:08.
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