DELIA  , a festival oi See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo held every five years at the See also:

• GREAT

great panegyris in See also:

• DELOS

Delos (Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 147) . It included athletic and musical contests, at which the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize was a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the sacred See also:

• PALM (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

palm . This festival was said to have been established by See also:

• THESEUS

Theseus on his way back from See also:

• CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete . Its celebration gradually See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into See also:

• ABEYANCE (O. Fr. abeance, " gaping")

abeyance and was not revived till 426 B.C., when the Athenians purified the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island and took so prominent a See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• MAINTENANCE (Fr. maintenance, from maintenir, to maintain, support, Lat. manu tenere, to hold in the hand)

maintenance of the Delia that it came to be regarded almost as an Athenian festival fhucydides iii . 104) . Ceremonial embassies (Bewpint) from all the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek cities were See also:

• PRESENT

present . See G . See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert, Deliaca (1869) ; J . A . Lebegue, Recherches sur Delos (1876); A . See also:

• MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); E . Pfuhl, De Atheniensium porn pis sacris (1900) ; G .

F . See also:

• SCHOMANN, GEORG FRIEDRICH (1793—1879)

Schomann, Griechische Altertiimer (4th ed., 1897—1902) ; P . Stengel, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die griechischen Kultusalterti mer (1898) ; T . Homolle in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:

• DES

des antiquites .