supplication
Sign in to saveright|thumb|250 px|The Supplication by Théodore Ralli|Théodore Jacques Ralli, 1905-1909 Supplication (also known as petitioning) is a form of prayer, wherein one party humbly or earnestly asks another party to provide something, either for the party who is doing the supplicating (e.g., "Please spare my life.") or on behalf of someone else.
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- In Classical Greek religion
- In ancient Rome
- In Christianity
- In Hinduism
- In Islam
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right|thumb|250 px|The Supplication by Théodore Ralli|Théodore Jacques Ralli, 1905-1909 Supplication (also known as petitioning) is a form of prayer, wherein one party humbly or earnestly asks another party to provide something, either for the party who is doing the supplicating (e.g., "Please spare my life.") or on behalf of someone else.
==In Classical Greek religion== Supplication is a theme of earliest antiquity, embodied in the Iliad as the prayers of Chryses for the return of his daughter, and of Priam for the dead body of his son, Hector. Richard Martin notes repeated references to supplicants throughout the poem, including warriors begging to be spared by the Greeks on the battlefield.