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- the role of animals. At the Attic site, or Brauron, in the rite called arkteia, girls representing the polis of Athens imitated she-bears, arktoi." "The...
- her cults at Brauron and at Piraeus (Munichia) are remarkable for the arkteia where virgin girls before marriage were disguised as she-bears. The ancient...
- Jackson 2006, pp. 50–51. Hamilton, Richard (1989). "Alkman and the Athenian Arkteia". Hesperia. 58 (4): 469. ISSN 0018-098X. JSTOR 148342. Larson, Jennifer...
- marry at a relatively young age. The quadrennial Bear Festival, known as Arkteia, was held on the outskirts of Athens in honor of Artemis and involved girls...
- Brauroneion, from which there was a procession every four years during the Arkteia festival. The tyrant Pisistratus was Brauronian by birth, and he is credited...
- (1979); ISBN 0900587393 Studies in Girls' Transitions: Aspects of the Arkteia and Age Representation in Attic Iconography (1988) "Reading" Gr**** Culture:...
- Retrieved 13 October 2018. Richard Hamilton (1989). "Alkman and the Athenian Arkteia". Hesperia. 58. Retrieved 13 October 2018. Thomas Francis Scanlon (2002)...
- 1984. "The Social Function of Rituals of Maturation: The Koureion and the Arkteia." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 233–244. 1984. "Male...
- (1984). The Social Function of Rituals of Maturation: The Koureion and the Arkteia. Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 55. pp. 233–235. Dillon...