186 J. Tzetzes, _Chiliades_, i. 646 _sqq._ M55 Dance of the youths and maidens at Cnossus. 187 Homer, _Iliad_, xviii. 590 _sqq._ 188 Plutarch, _Theseus_, 21; Julius Pollux, iv. 101. M56 The game of Troy. 189 As to the Game of Troy, see Virgil, _Aen._ v. 545-603; Plutarch, _Cato_, 3; Tacitus, _Annals_, xi. 11; Suetonius, _Augustus_, 43; _id._, _Tiberius_, 6; _id._, _Caligula_, 18; _id._, _Nero_, 6; W. Smith’s _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities_,3 _s.v._ “Trojae ludus”; O. Benndorf, “Das Alter des Trojaspieles,” appended to W. Reichel’s _Über homerische Waffen_ (Vienna, 1894), pp. 133-139. 190 O. Benndorf, _op. cit._ pp. 133 _sq._ 191 B. V. Head, _Historia numorum_ (Oxford, 1887), pp. 389-391. 192 O. Benndorf, _op. cit._ pp. 134 _sq._ 193 Pliny, _Nat. hist._ xxxvi. 85. 194 O. Benndorf, _op. cit._ p. 135; W. Meyer, “Ein Labyrinth mit Versen,” _Sitzungsberichte der philosoph. philolog. und histor_. _Classe der k. b. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München_, 1882, vol. ii. pp. 267-300. M57 The dance at Cnossus perhaps an imitation of the sun’s course in the sky. 195 See _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, i. 312. 196 B. V. Head, _Historia numorum_, p. 389. M58 Conclusions as to the king of Cnossus. M59 Octennial festivals of the Crowning at Delphi and the Laurel-bearing at Thebes. Both represented dramatically the slaying of a water-dragon. 197 Censorinus, _De die natali_, 18. 6. 198 The suggestion was made by Mr. A. B. Cook. The following discussion of the subject is founded on his ingenious exposition. See his article, “The European Sky-god,” _Folklore_, xv. (1904) pp. 402-424. 199 As to the Delphic festival see Plutarch, _Quaest. Graec._ 12; _id._, _De defectu oraculorum_, 15; Strabo, ix. 3. 12, pp. 422 _sq._; Aelian, _Var. hist._ iii. 1; Stephanus Byzantius, _s.v._ Δειπνίας; K. O. Müller, _Die Dorier_,2 i. 203 _sqq._, 321-324; Aug. Mommsen, _Delphika_ (Leipsic, 1878), pp. 206 _sqq._; Th. Schreiber, _Apollo Pythoktonos_, pp. 9 _sqq._; my note on Pausanias, ii. 7. 7 (vol. ii. 53 _sqq._). As to the Theban festival, see Pausanias, ix. 10. 4, with my note; Proclus, quoted by Photius, _Bibliotheca_, p. 321, ed. Bekker; Aug. Boeckh, in his edition of Pindar, _Explicationes_, p. 590; K. O. Müller, _Orchomenus und die Minyer_,2 pp. 215 _sq._; _id._, _Dorier_,2 i. 236 _sq._, 333 _sq._; C. Boetticher, _Der Baumkultus der Hellenen_, pp. 386 _sqq._; G. F. Schömann, _Griechische Alterthümer_,4 ii. 479 _sq._ 200 Apollodorus, iii. 4. 2, iii. 10. 4; Servius, on Virgil, _Aen._ vii. 761. The servitude of Apollo is traditionally associated with his slaughter of the Cyclopes, not of the dragon. But see my note on Pausanias, ii. 7. 7 (vol. ii. pp. 53 _sqq._).