Intention · Certain

Purification

A controlled ritual-intention term for purification associations.

Profile research status

This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.

Direct connections and evidence

DeityApollo

Explicit Source

Aeschylus presents Apollo as Orestes' purifier at Delphi

The tragedy separates ritual purification from the later judicial settlement at Athens.

1 attestation · contextual confidence

Aeschylus; translated by Herbert Weir Smyth, EumenidesHerbert Weir Smyth English translation of Aeschylus, Eumenides, Volume 2, William Heinemann and G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926, Perseus eng2 component modernized by Perseus · translated by Herbert Weir Smyth · edited by Herbert Weir Smyth · Perseus Digital Library · Classical Greece · Delphi · Line 64-93; 179-234; 276-306; 576-777 · Entry play: Eumenides

Reviewed sources

Aeschylus; translated by Herbert Weir Smyth, Eumenides (1926)1926 Loeb edition hosted by the Perseus Digital Library · Perseus Digital Library