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dc.contributor.authorDillon, Matthew Pen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Roger S Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B Champion, Andrew Erskine and Sabine R Huebneren
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-12T13:20:00Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citationThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History, v.X. Pl-Ro, p. 5368-5368en
dc.identifier.isbn9781405179355en
dc.identifier.isbn9781444338386en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14224-
dc.description.abstractThroughout the Greek world, women had charge of washing and dressing the statues of goddesses. Callimachus in his 'Fifth Hymn' describes details of the Argive women preparing to take Athena's statue to the river to bathe it. Best known is the specific Plynteria ("washing") rite at Athens in late summer (the twenty-fifth of the month Thargelion), when the ancient wooden statue of Athena on the acropolis was undressed, washed, and given a fresh, expensive, robe by women of the Praxiergidai genos ("clan"). The temples were closed for the day; no meetings of the public assembly took place. It was considered unlucky when Alkibiades arrived in Athens in 407 BCE on the Plynteria.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofThe Encyclopedia of Ancient Historyen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titlePlynteriaen
dc.typeEntry In Reference Worken
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17340en
dc.subject.keywordsClassical Greek and Roman Historyen
local.contributor.firstnameMatthew Pen
local.subject.for2008210306 Classical Greek and Roman Historyen
local.subject.seo2008950504 Understanding Europes Pasten
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086666064en
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailmdillon@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20140227-104558en
local.publisher.placeChichester, United Kingdomen
local.format.startpage5368en
local.format.endpage5368en
local.identifier.volumeX. Pl-Roen
local.contributor.lastnameDillonen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:mdillonen
local.profile.orcid0000-0001-6874-0513en
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.identifier.unepublicationidune:14437en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitlePlynteriaen
local.output.categorydescriptionN Entry In Reference Worken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/version/168712432en
local.search.authorDillon, Matthew Pen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2013en
local.subject.for2020430305 Classical Greek and roman historyen
local.subject.seo2020130704 Understanding Europe’s pasten
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