rt_, ii. 137, thinks it not certain that
the +gamos+ took place during the Anthesteria, at the same time as the
oath of the +gerairai+. Without the +gamos+, however, it is hard to see
what the +basilinna+ and +gerairai+ had to do in the festival; and this
is the view of Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_, pp. 391-3; Gruppe in
Iwan Mueller, _Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte_, i. 33; Farnell,
_Cults_, v. 217.

[18:2] One might perhaps say, in all three. +Anthisteros tou
Pythochrestou koinon+ is the name of a society of worshippers in the
island of Thera, _I. G. I._ iii. 329. This gives a god Anthister, who is
clearly identified with Dionysus, and seems to be a projection of a
feast Anthisteria = Anthesteria. The inscription is of the second
century B. C. and it seems likely that Anthister-Anthisteria, with their
clear derivation from +anthizein+, are corruptions of the earlier and
difficult forms +Anthester+-+Anthesteria+. It is noteworthy that Thera,
an island lying rather outside the main channels of civilization, kept
up throughout its history a tendency to treat the 'epithet' as a full
person. Hikesios and Koures come very early; also Polieus and Stoichaios
without the name Zeus; Delphinios, Karneios, Aiglatas, and Aguieus
without Apollo.

See Hiller von Gaertringen in the _Festschrift fuer O. Benndorff_, p.
228. Also Nilsson, _Griechische Feste_, 1906, p. 267, n. 5.

[20:1] Miss Harrison, 'Bird and Pillar Worship in relation to Ouranian
Divinities', _Transactions of the Third International Congress for the
History of Religion_, Oxford, 1908, vol. ii, p. 154; Farnell, _Greece
and Babylon_, 1911, pp. 66 ff.

[20:2] First published by R. Paribeni, 'Il Sarcofago dipinto di Hagia
Triada', in _Monumenti antichi della R. Accademia dei Lincei_, xix,
1908, p. 6, T. i-iii. See also _Themis_, pp. 158 ff.

[20:3] Ar. _Equites_, 82-4--or possibly of apotheosis. See _Themis_, p.
154, n. 2.

[21:1] _Themis_, p. 145, fig. 25; and p. 152, fig. 28 b.

[21:2] O. Kern, _Inschriften v. Magnesia_, No. 98, discussed by O. Kern,
_Arch. Anz._ 1894, p. 78, and Nilsson, _Griechische Feste_, p. 23.

[21:3] _Religion of the Semites_, 1901, p. 338; Reuterskiold, in _Archiv
f. Relig._ xv. 1-23.

[21:4] _Nili Opera_, _Narrat._ iii. 28.

[22:1] See Aristophanes' _Birds_, e. g. 685-736: cf. the practice of
augury from birds, and the art-types of Winged Keres, Victories and
Angels.

[23:1] Romans, i. 25; viii. 20-3.

[23:2] Lang, _Myth