Dead, offerings to, [18] f.; [165] f.; [v, 105]; dirge for the, [18], [164]; Banquet of, [168]; sacrifices to (Patroklos), [12] f.; in Mycenean graves, [22] f.; in Od. λ, [36] f.; elsewhere, [116], [164], [167] f.; Oracles of the, [24]; [i, 73]; Judges of the (Aesch. and Plato), [238] f.; (Pindar), [xii, 34] f.; (Aesch.), [xii, 77]; (later), [541]; classes of the, [xii, 62]; [xiv, ii, 127]; imagined as skeletons, [xiv, 11], [92]; exorcism, [conjuration] of, see [Souls] and [Ghosts].
Death, [3]; superior to life, [229], [542]; causing pollution, [295]; of gods, [iii, 30]; Black Death, [284].
[Defixiones], [ix, 92], [107]; [534], [594], [603] f.
Deification of Rulers, [537] f. (cf. [530] f.).
Delos, purification of, [ix, 119].
[Delphi]c Oracle, regulates expiatory rites, [v, 167]; [180] f.; authority of, in the cult of Heroes, [128] f.; gives support to the cult of Souls, [174]; to the Eleusinian worship, [vi, 5]; to the worship of Dionysos in Attica, [vi, 9]; sources of oracular inspiration, [289] f.; importance of D. in religious life of Greece, [157]; grave of Python at D., [97]; Delphic funeral ordinance, [v, 45].
Delphinion at Athens, [v, 172].
Demeter (and Kore), [160] f.; [v, 168]; [218] f.
Demetrios Poliorketes as Hero, [xiv, ii, 69].
Demetrios, Cynic, [xiv, 64].