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AGRIONIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGRIONIA  , an

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ancient
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Greek festival, which was celebrated annually at
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Orchomenus in
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Boeotia and elsewhere, in
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honour of
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Dionysus Agrionius, by
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women and priests at
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night . The women, after playfully pretending for some
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time to
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search for the
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god, desisted, saying that he had hidden himself among the
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Muses . The tradition is that the daughters of Minyas,
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king of Orchomenus, having despised the
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rites of the god, were seized with frenzy and
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ate the flesh of one of their
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children . At this festival it was originally the
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custom for the
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priest of the god to pursue a woman of the Minyan
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family with a
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drawn
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sword and kill her . (
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Plutarch, Quaest . Rom . 102, Quaest .

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