Thucydides by Thucydides

Author:Thucydides
Language: eng
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce had formally ended in spring of 422.

657 An interesting cross-reference to III 104 (the only other explicit cross-reference in Thucydides being at VI 94.1). There are other mentions of the purification at Delos at the very start and end of the work (I 8.1 and VIII 108.4), which may be by accident or design, and at V 32.1 we learn that the Delians are reinstated. People as well as places could evidently be ‘impure’ and one speculation is that the impurity in this case may be connected with the Athenian plague (see Diodorus 12.58 and Robert Parker, Miasma: pollution and purification in early Greek religion (Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 276–7).

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