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-introuble2 t1_j5654sv wrote

Surely not exactly what you're looking for; I can't recall something. But perhaps these are possibly relevant in a really broader way as a disturbance of rites:

Plutarch writes about Agesilaus II, king of Sparta [396 BCE ca] that after a vision he tried to perform a sacrifice in Aulis using with his own seer for the ritual, against the customs of Boiotenas, who forbade the rite and threw away the sacrificial animal [Plut. Ages. 6.4-6]. The incindent had been narrated previously by Xenophon [Xen. Hell. 3.4] but with no claimed reason. Check also Paus. 3.9.3-5 where more possibly this disruption comes after some boasting [?].

Also one more where a priest seems asking for no disturbance before some ritual [?]... Heliodorus Aeth. 4.5: 'καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ πάντες ἔξιτε· τρίποδά τις καὶ δάφνην καὶ πῦρ καὶ λιβανωτὸν παραθέσθω μόνον, ὀχλείτω δὲ μηδὲ εἷς ἕως ἂν προσκαλέσωμαι.' Προσέταττε ταῦτα ὁ Χαρικλῆς καὶ ἐγένετο. Not aware of the plot here, it would need surely good checking before use.

You may also find of some interest Polybius [Plb. 6.56.6ff] where a general approach on Romans' rites, beliefs, religion [as his comparison somehow ?], but really not to the point.

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-introuble2 t1_j0td4j6 wrote

From a previous reading I thought I had a reference that many Greeks had converted or entered into Jainism, too. I can't refind what I had in mind but maybe an older writing is also of some interest; from The Greeks In Bactria And India by W. W. Tarn, 1938, p. 391 "... but in fact at present there are only five Greeks whose religious predilections are known or can be deduced, and three of these were not Buddhists...." in https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282142/page/n413/mode/2up

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-introuble2 OP t1_izoxsb1 wrote

Thank you!

"... in the form of narrative compositions or ‘scenes’ that feature clear figurative depictions of sets of figures in spatial proximity to each other..."

Though it isn't hard to understand what 'narrative scene' could mean, however, I can't always recognize it. In such and other examples, at least in my eyes it isn't always clear; i.e. when this should be considered one depiction of larger scale, or separated and independent somehow 'scenes', or in the end separated but connected [like 'panels'] 'telling a story'? Even if they were arranged horizontally

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-introuble2 OP t1_izoxku1 wrote

It's fascinating to see a 'story' that ancient, being depicted. However I'm not so sure about the exact classifications; i.e. when it should be considered 'narrative', if scientists are distinguishing on the base of material etc. In any case I wish I knew the story...

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-introuble2 OP t1_izokfif wrote

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-introuble2 t1_ixiocvr wrote

I don't know if this could help but, as far as I remember, regarding the Persian wars historian Herodotus sometimes is mentioning the use of interpreters [uses the word ἑρμηνεύς], while at other instances he places persons of different nations speaking directly. This underlines the possibility that he implies that they were speaking with the same language.

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