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Updated: May 26, 2025
It is hard to believe, as Hellanikus relates, that they crossed the Cimmerian Bosphorus on the ice; but that they encamped almost in the city is borne witness to by the local names, and by the tombs of the fallen. The battle took place in the month Boedromion, on the day on which the Athenians celebrate the feast Boedromia.
The Greek Boedromia was referred to the succor given by Theseus against the Amazons, and in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries ætiological myths connected with Demeter, Kore, and Dionysos formed the central part of the proceedings. +846+. Relation between myth and ritual. The question whether myth comes from ritual or ritual from myth has been much discussed.
Both armies being in sight, there was a long pause and doubt on each side which should give the first onset; at last Theseus, having sacrificed to Fear, in obedience to the command of an oracle he had received, gave them battle; and this happened in the month of Boedromion, in which to this very day the Athenians celebrate the Feast Boedromia.
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