Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMcClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Lampadephoria
Subjects in this Topic:
(from ëáìðÜò , a torch, and öÝñù , to bear), ancient Grecian games, celebrated in honor of Prometheus, Athena, and Hephaestus, who taught men the use of fire. The game consisted in carrying an unextinguished torch through certain distances by a successive chain of runners; each taking it up at the point where another left it, and the one who permitted it to go out losing the game.