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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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Dionysos at Delphoi 233<br />

commemorated the defeat of the Gauls near Delphoi (279— 278 B.C.)<br />

by establish<strong>in</strong>g a festival to be called Soteria <strong>in</strong> honour of <strong>Zeus</strong><br />

Soter and Apollon Pythios^. But A. Mommsen's notion that the<br />

ord<strong>in</strong>ary Pythian rites were performed for the Moiragetai, <strong>Zeus</strong> as<br />

well as Apollon^ is an unsupported conjectured On the other hand,<br />

importance must be attached to the fact that at the feast Boukatia''<br />

<strong>in</strong> the month Boukatios (=the Attic Metageitnion)' the Delphic<br />

phratry of the Labyadai sacrificed not only to Apollon but also to<br />

<strong>Zeus</strong> Patroios^, a god by whom they swore^<br />

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