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;
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.
How should I, when I am bringing to justice a fellow who is as violent a bully as he is reputed to be, who has offended against decency at a public festival, and who has made not only you, but all the Greeks who were visiting the city, witnesses of his brutality?
Now I propose, men of Athens, to name those who have been condemned by you, after an adverse vote of the Assembly, for violating the festival, and to explain what some of them had done to incur your anger, so that you may compare their guilt with that of Meidias.
Then another man, Ctesicles, was unanimously condemned by the Assembly for profaning the festival, and when he came before you, you sentenced him to death, because he carried a leathern lash in the procession and, being drunk, struck with it a personal enemy of his.