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DELIA , a festival oi See also: Apollo held every five years at the See also: great panegyris in See also: Delos (Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 147)
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It included athletic and musical contests, at which the prize was a branch of the sacred palm
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This festival was said to have been established by See also: Theseus on his way back from Crete
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Its celebration gradually See also: fell into See also: abeyance and was not revived till 426 B.C., when the Athenians purified the See also: island and took so prominent a See also: part in the maintenance of the Delia that it came to be regarded almost as an Athenian festival fhucydides iii
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Ceremonial embassies (Bewpint) from all the See also: Greek cities were See also: present
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See G
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See also: Gilbert, Deliaca (1869) ; J
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Lebegue, Recherches sur Delos (1876); A
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See also: Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); E
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Pfuhl, De Atheniensium porn pis sacris (1900) ; G
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F . Schomann, Griechische Altertiimer (4th ed., 1897—1902) ; P . Stengel, Die griechischen Kultusalterti mer (1898) ; T . Homolle in Daremberg and Saglio's DictionnaireSee also: des antiquites
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