Thesmophoria · Atlas

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The Thesmophoria3 mentions

Ecclesiazusae (Greek) · On The Estate of Ciron (Greek) · On the Murder of Eratosthenes (Greek)

and that they do not, as you and I do in our counsels, ever betray the secrets of the Thesmophoria, but you and I are always doing this.

ecclesiazusae ¶

in the texts

PoliorceticaClassical · Greek

Religious festival celebrated by Athenian women at Eleusis, targeted by the Megarian raiders.

For it was reported to Pisistratus, while he was general of the Athenians, that the men of Megara, arriving in boats, were attempting to attack by night the women of the Athenians who were celebrating the Thesmophoria at Eleusis.

poliorcetica ¶

EcclesiazusaeClassical · Greek

A traditional women's religious festival cited as evidence of female discretion and solidarity.

and that they do not, as you and I do in our counsels, ever betray the secrets of the Thesmophoria, but you and I are always doing this.

ecclesiazusae ¶

they keep the Thesmophoria as before;

ecclesiazusae ¶

ThesmophoriazusaeClassical · Greek

The women-only Athenian festival honoring Demeter and Persephone, whose assembly against Euripides structures the plot.

For the women have plotted against me, and today at the Thesmophorium they mean to hold an assembly about me, to my ruin.

thesmophoriazusae ¶

Since neither are the law-courts about to give judgment now, nor is there a sitting of the Council, since it is the third day of the Thesmophoria, the middle one.

thesmophoriazusae ¶

and may we, the noble women of the Athenians, hold our assembly to good effect.

thesmophoriazusae ¶

On The Estate of CironClassical · Greek

An Athenian women's festival in honor of Demeter, at which the speaker's mother was chosen by the demesmen's wives to preside jointly with another woman, cited as proof of her recognized legitimate status.

Also the wives of the demesmen afterwards chose our mother, together with the wife of Diocles of Pithus, to preside at the Thesmophoria and to carry out the ceremonies jointly with her.

on the estate of ciron ¶

On the Murder of EratosthenesClassical · Greek

A religious festival during which the narrator's wife met with Eratosthenes' mother.

how my wife in time was persuaded, and by what means she procured his entrances, and how at the Thesmophoria, while I was in the country, she went off to the temple with his mother.

ch. 1 ¶

HellenicaClassical · Greek

Women's festival occurring in the Cadmea during the Theban coup.

Accordingly, while the senate was in session in the portico in the market-place, for the reason that the women were celebrating the festival of the Thesmophoria in the Cadmea, and while, inasmuch as it was summer and midday, the streets were entirely deserted, at this time Leontiades rode out on horseback to overtake Phoebidas, turned him back, and led him straight to the Acropolis.

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