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1137. Names of deities omit the article, except when emphatic (νὴ τὸν Δία by Zeus) or when definite cults are referred to: τὸ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἕδος the sanctuary of Athena (at Athens) I. 15.2. Names of festivals vary in prose writers (no article in inscriptions): Παναθήναια the Panathenaea (but ““Παναθηναίοις τοῖς μι_κροῖςat the Lesser PanathenaeaL. 21.4). Names of shrines have the article.

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