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- An Arrephoros (Ancient Gr****: Ἀρρήφορος) was a girl acolyte in the cult of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis. They were seven to eleven years old...
- by the high priestess and the treasurers of the temple followed by the arrephoros carrying the peplos robe. This lead group would be followed by other priests...
- he considered a great playwright. The phrase appears in the lost play Arrephoros, as quoted in Deipnosophistae. Plutarch reports that these words were...
- mentions a priest who offered his daughter as a parti****nt in the rites ("arrephoros for the Epidauria"). Based on this event and other references to "kanephoroi"...
- their presence. It was considered a great honor to be chosen to be an Arrephoros; there are honorific portrait statues and inscribed statues that have...
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