Profanation of the Mysteries
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
profanation of the Mysteries · act of impiety · feast · offence against the Two Goddesses · profaning the Dionysia · public festival · violation of the festival
in the texts
On the Mysteries
The alleged religious crime underlying the information against Andocides.
Of those who went into exile as a result of the profanation of the Mysteries, some died abroad;
So much for the profanation of the Mysteries, gentlemen, on which the information lodged against me is based and which you are here as initiates to investigate.
I shall deal first with the actual charge which furnished grounds for the lodging of the information that has brought me into court today, profanation of the Mysteries.
Against Meidias
Legal and religious violations committed during the Mysteries, Dionysia, processions, or other sacred public occasions.
anything rather than touch me with your own hand;
There you have one case of a man, in a merely private matter, with no added circumstances of insolence, paying so heavy a penalty for a breach of the law.
He had won a commercial suit against Menippus, but being, as he alleged, unable to catch him sooner, he had arrested him while he was staying here for the Mysteries.