Purification
“ritual purity”
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Phaedo
The separation of soul from body and its concerns, identified by Socrates as the true nature of virtue and the goal of the philosophic life.
And does not the purification consist in this which has been mentioned long ago in our discourse, in separating, so far as possible, the soul from the body and teaching the soul the habit of collecting and bringing itself together from all parts of the body, and living, so far as it can, both now and hereafter, alone by itself, freed from the body as from fetters?
but truth is in fact a purification from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification.
They are in every way hostile to the body and they desire to have the soul apart by itself alone.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The concept of ritual purification of sacred space, enacted by removing burials and prohibiting death and birth on Delos.
The same winter also the Athenians purified Delos, in obedience, as they professed, to a certain oracle.
All the sepulchres of those who had died in Delos they removed, and commanded that in future no one should either die in the island or bear a child, but that [in such cases all should] be carried across to Rhenea.