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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek antiquity, a band or company assembled in honor of a divinity; especially, a Dionysiac band or procession in which men and women took part in character, with boisterous mirth and music, and bearing attributes of the god; sometimes a political, commercial, social, or benevolent association or gild (
ἔρανος ); specifically, the mythological band of nymphs, mænads, satyrs, etc., forming the personal cortège of Dionysus, and often represented in sculpture and painting. See Bacchus.
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“The religious bond of the thiasus or _sodalicium_ took the place of the natural relationship of the family, the gens or the clan, just as the foreign religion replaced the worship of the domestic hearth.”
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Emblematics
Sigility: avatars and representative figures. Types of symbols: academic, religious, abstract.
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whichbe Group of worshippers gathered to dance in praise of gods. (from Phrontistery) May 24, 2008