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DAPHNEPHORIA

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 826 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DAPHNEPHORIA , a festival held every ninth year at Thebes in Boeotia in honour of Apollo Ismenius or Galaxius. It consisted of a procession in which the
chief
  figure was a boy of good family and noble
appearance
 , whose father and
mother
  must be alive.
Immediately in front of this boy, who was called Daphnephoros (laurel bearer), walked one of his nearest relatives, carrying an olive branch hung with laurel and
flowers
  and having on the upper end a bronze ball from which hung several smaller balls. Another smaller ball was placed on the middle of the branch or
pole
  (called Kaslrw), which was then twined. round with
purple
  ribbons, and at the lower end with saffron ribbons. These balls were said to indicate the sun, stars and moon, while the ribbons referred to the days of the year, being 365 in number. The Daphnephoros, wearing a golden crown, or a wreath of laurel, richly dressed and partly holding the
pole
 , was followed by a chorus of maidens carrying suppliant branches and singing a hymn to the god. The Daphnephoros dedicated a bronze
tripod
  in the temple of Apollo, and Pausanias (ix. 10.4) mentions the
tripod
  dedicated there by
Amphitryon
  when his son Heracles had been Daphnephoros. The festival is described by
Proclus
  (in
Photius
  cod. 239).
See also A. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898) ; C. O. Muller, Orchomenos (1844) ; article in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites.


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