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pharmakos: a standalone construct

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Classics

the ancient Greek rite of expelling a chosen person from the city to remove pollution or disaster.

In classics, pharmakos refers to the ancient Greek rite of expelling a chosen person from the city to remove pollution or disaster. This meaning comes from Bremmer (1983) in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology.[1]

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person3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs rite1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Bremmer, J. (1983). Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 87, 299. https://doi.org/10.2307/311262

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