Verify Citation - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Query: 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Quoted text:
Joseph Fontenrose (“The Cult of Apollo and the Games at Delphi,” in Wendy J. Raschke [ed.], The Archaeology of the Olympics [Madison, Wisconsin: 1988]: p. 129) noted that on the retaining wall of Delphi’s stadium was inscribed “a law forbidding the taking of wine from the stadium and providing penalties for violations. Anyone who took wine out had to propitiate the god for whom it was intended, offer sacrifice to him, and pay a fine of five drachmas, about a dollar in gold or silver under the gold standard, a fairly heavy fine in classical Hellas. The inscription… shows that rites of worship were performed in the stadium in honor of several gods; the wine was intended for libations.”
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