Monday, April 11, 2016
Festivals
Arthur Darby Nock, review of Ludwig Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin: Keller, 1932), in Gnomon 10.6 (June, 1934) 289-295 (at 295):
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The festival, with its mixture of piety, patriotism and merrymaking, holy day and holiday alike, is a central fact of ancient corporate religion, and very much of the life of antiquity is lost to us if we do not understand it aright.
