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On the Sacrifices at Rhodes was a work by Gorgon, a Greek writer on Rhodian religion of whom almost nothing is known; since he mentions a paean sung by the Rhodians to Ptolemy I of Egypt, he wrote no earlier than about 300 BC. The work is lost and survives only in a few brief citations, preserved by Athenaeus, the lexicographer Hesychius and a scholion on Pindar.
The fragments preserve rare details of the cults of Hellenistic Rhodes: the Rhodian paean to Ptolemy, a Rhodian cult title of Hermes, and the report that Pindar's seventh Olympian ode, in honour of the Rhodian boxer Diagoras, was dedicated in letters of gold in the temple of Athena at Lindos.
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