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DELPHINIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELPHINIA , a festival of See also:

Apollo Delphinius held annually on the 6th (or 7th) of the See also:month Munychion (See also:April) at See also:Athens. All that is known of the ceremonies is that a number of girls proceeded to his See also:temple (Delphinium) carrying suppliants' branches and seeking to propitiate Apollo, probably as a See also:god having See also:influence on the See also:sea. It was at this See also:time of See also:year that See also:navigation began again after the storms of See also:winter. According to the See also:story in See also:Plutarch (See also:Theseus, 18), Theseus, before setting out to See also:Crete to slay the See also:Minotaur, repaired to the Delphinium and deposited, on his own behalf and that of his companions on whom the See also:lot had fallen, an offering to Apollo, consisting of a See also:branch of consecrated See also:olive, See also:bound about with See also:white See also:wool; after which he prayed to the god and set See also:sail. The sending of the maidens to propitiate the god during the Delphinia commemorates this event in the See also:life of Theseus. See A. See also:Mommsen, Festeder Stadt A then (1898) ; L. See also:Preller,Griechische Mythologie (4th ed., 1887) ; P. Stengel, See also:Die griechische Kuliusaltertiimer (1898) ; Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites; G. F. See also:Schomann, Griechische Altertiimer (4th ed., 1897–1902).

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