customs
First-Fruits Offering (Aparche)
aparche
The dedication of the first or choicest portion of a harvest, catch, or spoils to a god as thanksgiving and acknowledgment of divine ownership.
Where this idea shows up
12 Greek sourcesWhere to read it
- Cyropaedia354 BCEXenophon· Athens
- On Hunting354 BCEXenophon· Athens
- Quaestiones Romanae120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Quaestiones Convivales120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Quaestiones Graecae120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Deipnosophistae230 CEAthenaeus of Naucratis· Naucratis