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- The Thesmophoria (Ancient Gr****: Θεσμοφόρια) was an ancient Gr**** religious festival, held in honor of the goddess Demeter and her daughter ****phone...
- Thesmophoriazousai, lit. 'women celebrating the festival of the Thesmophoria'), or Women at the Thesmophoria (sometimes also called The Poet and the Women), is one...
- Demeters, in Rhodes and Sparta The thesmophoroi, "the legislators" in the Thesmophoria. The Great Goddesses, in Arcadia. The mistresses in Arcadia. Karpophoroi...
- "legislator", in ****ociation with the secret female-only festival called the Thesmophoria. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest...
- Italian magna Graeca. The reformed cult was based on the Gr****, women-only Thesmophoria, and was promoted as morally desirable for respectable Roman women, both...
- Thesmophoria were the most widespread festivals and the main expression of the cult of Demeter, aside from the Eleusinian Mysteries. The Thesmophoria...
- scholiast presents this narrative element as an aition for the ritual at the Thesmophoria in which piglets are thrown into a sacrificial pit (megara) dedicated...
- Euergetism Rites of p****age Amphidromia Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia...
- Euergetism Rites of p****age Amphidromia Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia...
- Mysteries. She also officiated during lesser festivals, such as the Thesmophoria and the Haloa. The office could not have survived the ban of all non-Christian...