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

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

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