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phallophorus|fæləʊˈfɒrəs|
Also -phoros. Pl. -phori, -phoroi.
[ad. Gr. ϕαλλοϕόρος bearing a phallus.]
One who carries a phallus, esp. as part of a festival of Dionysus in ancient Greece.
1854C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus' Deipnosophists III. xiv. 992 Semos the Delian says in his book about Pæans... ‘And those,..who are called Ithyphalli, wear a mask representing the face of a drunken man... And the Phallophori..wear no masks, but they put on a sort of veil of wild thyme... The Phallophorus..marched straight on, covered with soot and dirt’. 1885H. M. Westropp Primitive Symbolism 54 The periphallia..carried long poles with phalli hung at the end of them: they were crowned with violets and ivy... These men were called phallophori. 1909L. R. Farnell Cults Gk. States V. v. 210 It may be that Semos of Delos is describing something that happened in the later Attic festival when—according to Athenaeus—he speaks of ‘the ithyphalloi’..and of the phallophoroi without masks entering through the central doors of the theatre. 1927A. W. Pickard-Cambridge Dithyramb Tragedy & Comedy iii. 234 The phallophorus proper had his face disguised with soot. (Probably he carried, but did not wear, the phallus). Ibid. 235 Possibly the ceremony of the phallophori was of a common type, differing little from town to town. 1931A. Nicoll Masks, Mimes & Miracles i. 26 Bethe thinks that the phallophoroi were Delians; for this there is no proof. |