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AGRIONIA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 424 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGRIONIA , an
ancient
 
Greek
  festival, which was celebrated annually at
Orchomenus
  in Boeotia and elsewhere, in honour of Dionysus Agrionius, by
women
  and priests at night. The
women
 , after playfully pretending for some time to
search
  for the god, desisted, saying that he had hidden himself among the Muses. The tradition is that the daughters of Minyas, king of
Orchomenus
 , having despised the
rites
  of the god, were seized with frenzy and ate the flesh of one of their children. At this festival it was originally the custom for the priest of the god to pursue a woman of the Minyan family with a
drawn
 
sword
  and kill her. (
Plutarch
 , Quaest. Rom. 102, Quaest. Graecae 38.)


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