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Between the market-place and the Menius is an old theater and a shrine of Dionysus. The image is the work of Praxiteles. Of the gods the Eleans worship Dionysus with the greatest reverence, and they assert that the god attends their festival, the Thyia. The place where they hold the festival they name the Thyia is about eight stades from the city. Three pots are brought into the building by the priests and set down empty in the presence of the citizens and of any strangers who may chance to be in the country. The doors of the building are sealed by the priests themselves and by any others who may be so inclined.

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  • Commentary references to this page (2):
    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 1152
    • Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO DIONYSUS
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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), OLY´MPIA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ELIS
    • Smith's Bio, Praxi'teles
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