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The Women of Amphissa
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The festival known to modern scholars as the
Oreibasia (whose name means "mountain running") took place during the winter months at Delphi. Official delegations from many cities including Athens came to this festival. Plutarch describes the rescue of a group of Thyiads who unwittingly wandered
into the city of Amphissa in Phocis during a time of war, and exhausted by their frenzy, fell asleep in the marketplace. The women of Amphissa, fearing that harm would come
to them, stood watch silently around them until they revived and could be given a hot dinner and safe conduct to the borders. |
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