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Title: | Thesmophoria | Contributor(s): | Dillon, Matthew P (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21376 | Abstract: | A citizen women's-only festival organized within cities' official religious CALENDAR, the Thesmophoria was celebrated throughout the Greek world over several days, three at Athens and ten at Syracuse, in honor of DEMETER and PERSEPHONE to promote the FERTILITY of the fields just prior to their sowing. Women carried out their own SACRIFICES without the presence of any males, who were not permitted to view or know of the rites. At Athens, the first day was the Anodos, the "going up," when the women made their way to the festival, while the second was the Nesteia, "fast;" probably an exercise of ritual empathy with the goddess Demeter's fasting in her grief over the abduction. of her daughter, as well as being a purificatory rite. | Publication Type: | Entry In Reference Work | Source of Publication: | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, p. 952-952 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | New York, United States of America | ISBN: | 9780203506240 9780415831970 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430305 Classical Greek and roman history | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | N Entry In Reference Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/226306875 |
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