CLA308H1 Lecture : CLA 308 - Lecture 5
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**handout main sources of festival dipolieia (athens) Old-fashioned and dipoliodean and filled with cicadas and kekeides and bouphonia! Dipoleia here is synonymous to old-fashioned or from olden times, maybe. Might suggest that the festival has been performed since early on in greek history. Upon the altar of zeus polieus they place barley mixed with wheat and leave it unguarded. The ox, which they keep already prepared for sacrifice, goes to the altar and partakes of the grain. One of the priests they call the ox-slayer, who kills the ox and then, casting aside the axe here according to the ritual runs away. The others bring the axe to trial, as though they know not the man who did the deed. Reappropriation of the guilt/blame onto non-human objects ox, axe. The court in the prytaneum, as it is called, where they try iron and all similar inanimate thing, had its origin, i believe, in the following incident.
