Kakodaimonistai

Kakodaimonistai

Kakodaimonistai

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Kakodaimonistai (ancient Greek κακοδαιμονισταί, singular κακοδαιμονιστής, worshippers of the evil daemon) was the name of a dining club in ancient Athens. They chose the name to ridicule the gods and Athenian custom.[1] One of the ways in which they did this, was by dining on unlucky days (ἡμέραι ἀποφράδες), holidays set apart for fasting, in order to test the gods.[2]

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  1. [1]
    Lysias, fragment 143.
  2. [2]
    E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (1951), pp. 188–189.


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