Castalia
place · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Castalia's gushing fount · Castalia's streams
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Ion
The sacred spring at Delphi whose waters are used for ritual purification of the temple and its visitors.
to Castalia’s gushing fount as silver clear, and, when ye have bathed you in its waters pure, enter the shrine;
My task is nearly done of sweeping with the laurel broom, so now from a golden ewer will I sprinkle o’er the ground water from Castalia’s gushing spring, scattering the liquid dew with hands from all defilement free.
Iphigenia in Tauris
The sacred spring near Delphi, associated with Apollo's oracular shrine.
You killed him, o Phoebus, while still a baby, still leaping in the arms of your dear mother, and you entered the holy shrine, and sit on the golden tripod, on your truthful throne distributing prophecies from the gods to mortals, up from the sanctuary, neighbor of Castalia’s streams, as you dwell in the middle of the earth.
Phoenissae
Sacred spring at Delphi where the Chorus of maidens was to perform ritual dedication to Phoebus.
But the water of Castalia is still waiting for me to drench the maiden glory of my hair for the service of Phoebus.
Nemean
Spring at the site of the Pythian games, named in the poet's oath about Aristagoras's potential success.
in my judgment, whether he went to Castalia or to the well-wooded hill of Cronus, he would have returned home in finer fashion than the opponents who strove against him, having celebrated the four years’ festival ordained by Heracles, and having crowned his hair with purple wreaths.
Olympian
Sacred spring at Delphi, named as a site of Diagoras's crowning and later associated with Opus's flourishing.
she flourishes with excellence beside your stream, Castalia, and beside the Alpheus.
And now, with the music of flute and lyre alike I have come to land with Diagoras, singing the sea-child of Aphrodite and bride of Helios, Rhodes, so that I may praise this straight-fighting, tremendous man who had himself crowned beside the Alpheus and near Castalia, as a recompense for his boxing, and also his father Damagetus, a man pleasing to Justice, living on the island of three cities near …