Greece and Babylon

by Lewis Richard Farnell

^[290.1] Od., xxii. 481: In the passage referred to above, Achilles uses sulphur to purify the cups.

^[290.2] Od., xiii. 256-281: This is rightly pointed out by Stengel in his Griechische Kultusaltertümer, p. 107.

^[290.3] Evolution of Religion, pp. 139-152; Cults, iv. pp. 295-306.

^[291.1] Vide Cults, iv. pp. 144-147, 300: To suppose that Hellas learnt its cathartic rites from Lydia, because Herodotus (i. 35) tells us that in his time the Lydians had the Hellenic system of purification from homicide, is less natural. Lydia may well have learnt it from Delphi in the time of Alyattes or Croesus. Or it may have survived in Lydia as a tradition of the early “Minoan” period; and, similarly, it may have survived in Crete.

^[291.2] Vide supra, pp. [176]-[178].

^[292.1] Vide Cults, iv. pp. 268-284.

^[292.2] For similar practices, vide Cults, pp. 415-417.

^[292.3] Clem. Alex. Strom., p. 755, Pott.

^[293.1] Paus., 9, 33, 4.

^[293.2] For the facts vide Zimmern, K.A.T.³, p. 592.