-
between seven and
eleven were
elected to live for a year at a time as
arrhephoroi,
tending the
sacred olive tree and weaving, with the help of
other women...
-
Pausanias records that,
during the Arrhephoria, two
young girls known as the
Arrhephoroi, who
lived near the
temple of
Athena Polias,
would be
given hidden objects...
- Pan****enic Games;, the
arrhephoria (ἀρρηφορία) to
cover the cost of the
arrhephoroi, four
girls of
Athenian high
society who
brought the
peplos to the Athena...
- is
interpreted as the
presentation of Athena's peplos,
perhaps by the
arrhephoroi, but
debate exists regarding who the
figures represent more than what...
- the
Gardens after the p****age in
Pausanias describing the
rites of the
arrhephoroi. The cave is
divided in two by a wall into the so-called
eastern and...
-
consecrated to
Artemis of
Brauron before marriage; in the Arrhephoria,
girls (
Arrhephoroi) who had
spent the
previous year
serving Athena left the
Acropolis by...
