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- the lives of Spartan women come from archaic Gr**** poetry, such as the partheneia ("maiden songs") of Alcman, a Lydian poet who lived and worked in Sparta...
- was an English Jesuit writer. His best known work is the emblem book Partheneia Sacra: Or the Mysterious and Delicious Garden of the Sacred Parthenes...
- ancient garbage dump at Oxyrhynchus. Most of these fragments contain poems (partheneia), but there are also other kinds of hymns among them. Pausanias says that...
- ἐμὲ δὲ πρέπει παρθενήια μὲν φρονεῖν γλώσσᾳ τε λέγεσθαι. emè dè prépei parthenḗia mèn phroneîn glṓssāi te légesthai. I must think maidenly thoughts And...
- Graces at Delphi. In Sparta, girls of marriageable age performed the partheneia (choral maiden songs) in her honor. An ancient Gr**** proverb, written...
- Nieuwen Tijdt Adriaen van de Venne   (Netherlands?) 1632 Henry Hawkins Partheneia Sacra       1633 Etienne Luzvic Le cœur dévot       1634 translated into...
- girls in religious festivals, and were related to the ancient genre of partheneia. The poems may have been performed at cult celebrations in the places...
- offer religious devotion in the forms of hymns, paeans, and dithyrambs. Partheneia, "maiden-songs," were sung by choruses of maidens at festivals. Love poems...
- interpreted as concerning female homo****ual desire. Alcman wrote hymns known as partheneia, which discuss attraction between young women. Though these hymns are...
- paianes – "paeans" dithyramboi – "dithyrambs" prosodia – "processionals" partheneia – "songs for maidens" hyporchemata – "songs for light dances" enkomia...