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Meander

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A running key or fret pattern of classical ornament. Not a labyrinth as a place, and not every maze-path under a Greek name.

Also known as Greek key · Fret pattern

Hellenic religion

  • Meander appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias’s Greek itinerary sits among temples whose ornament includes the running meander. A named meander fret in that periegesis neighborhood, not a river-bend landform and not a labyrinth dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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