Editing Sabazios (section)

==Sabazios in Athens==
The ecstatic Eastern rites practiced largely by women in Athens were thrown together for rhetorical purposes by [[Demosthenes]] in undermining his opponent Aeschines for participating in his mother's cultic associations:
<blockquote>On attaining manhood you abetted your mother in her initiations and the other rituals, and read aloud from the cultic writings&nbsp;... You rubbed the fat-cheeked snakes and swung them above your head, crying ''Euoi saboi'' and ''hues attes, attes hues''.<ref>Demosthenes, ''De corona'' 260; [[Attis]], serpent cult, Sabazios, Dionysus (Aeschines is characterised as "ivy-bearer" and "''liknos''-carrier"), and "cultic writings", which may have insinuated [[Orphic]] connections as well, are not otherwise linked in [[Cult (religion)|cult]], save in their foreignness in fifth-century Athens.</ref></blockquote>