caa a22 4500 388106689 CHVBK 20180307125340.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632319 doi S0075426900018760 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632319 Schachter A. McGill University The Nyktophylaxia of Delos [Elektronische Daten] [A. Schachter] In 426/425 BC the Athenians purified the island of Delos: they removed all the graves, and for the future forbade either dying or giving birth there; those involved were to be removed to Rheneia. They also instituted the penteteric Delia after the purification. Whatever the Athenians' initial motivation, the interdiction on burial seems to have been taken seriously, for there were few if any licit burials on the island for the rest of antiquity. It must have been very difficult for the people of Delos to conform to this law, as it affected both the burial of the dead, and the performance of the regular, customary, rites of tendance of family tombs. This paper suggests how they may have found a way to adapt normal Greek practice to fit the circumstances peculiar to Delos. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1999 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 172-174 0075-4269 119<172 1999 119 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632319 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632319 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schachter A. McGill University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 172-174 0075-4269 119<172 1999 119 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge