Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), E, Elgin Marbles, Ellotia

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Ellotia

or Hellotia (τὰ ἐλλώτια or ἑλλώτια). A festival with a torch-race celebrated at Corinth in honour of Athené as a goddess of fire (Athen. xv. p. 678 a, b).

A festival of the same name was celebrated in Crete in honour of Europa. The ἑλλωτίς, from which the festival derived its name, was, according to Seleucus (ap. Athen. l. c.), a myrtle garland twenty cubits in circumference, which was carried about in the procession at the festival of the Ellotia.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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