Alcibiades 34.3

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Alcibiades 34.3
Quotation
ἀφ᾽ οὗ γὰρ ἐπετειχίσθη Δεκέλεια καὶ τῶν εἰς Ἐλευσῖνα παρόδων ἐκράτουν οἱ πολέμιοι παρόντες, οὐδένα κόσμον εἶχεν ἡ τελετὴ πεμπομένη κατὰ θάλατταν, ἀλλὰ καὶ θυσίαι καὶ χορεῖαι καὶ πολλὰ τῶν δρωμένων καθ᾽ ὁδὸν ἱερῶν, ὅταν ἐξελαύνωσι τὸν Ἴακχον, ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκης ἐξελείπετο.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
The rites of the Eleusinian mysteries
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Abstract: Performance
Medium/a Ornamenting
Sacrifices, choral dances, sacred ceremonies
Notes
cp. Siegfried Kracauer, ‘The Mass Ornament’, in The Mass Ornament, Weimar Essays, trans and ed Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
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A01011
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