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Encyclopedia Britannica



DELIA

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 958 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DELIA , a festival oi Apollo held every five years at the
great
  panegyris in Delos (Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 147). It included athletic and musical contests, at which the prize was a branch of the sacred palm. This festival was said to have been established by Theseus on his way back from
Crete
 . Its celebration gradually
fell
  into abeyance and was not revived till 426 B.C., when the Athenians purified the
island
  and took so prominent a
part
  in the maintenance of the Delia that it came to be regarded almost as an Athenian festival fhucydides iii. 104). Ceremonial embassies (Bewpint) from all the
Greek
  cities were present.
See G.
Gilbert
 , Deliaca (1869) ; J. A. Lebegue, Recherches sur Delos (1876); A. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); E. Pfuhl, De Atheniensium porn pis sacris (1900) ; G. F. Schomann, Griechische Altertiimer (4th ed., 18971902) ; P. Stengel, Die griechischen Kultusalterti mer (1898) ; T. Homolle in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites.


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