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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). It included athletic and musical contests, at which the See also:prize was a See also:branch of the sacred See also:palm. This festival was said to have been established by See also:Theseus on his way back from See also:Crete. 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 See also: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 cities were See also:present. See G. See also:Gilbert, Deliaca (1869) ; J. A. Lebegue, Recherches sur Delos (1876); A. See also:Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); E. Pfuhl, De Atheniensium porn pis sacris (1900) ; G.

F. See also:

Schomann, Griechische Altertiimer (4th ed., 1897—1902) ; P. Stengel, See also:Die griechischen Kultusalterti mer (1898) ; T. Homolle in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites.

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