Brauron
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the hallowed stairs of Brauron
in the texts
Against Conon
A cultic place associated with the priestess whose father was banished in a legal precedent.
At any rate the father of the priestess at Brauron, although it was admitted that he had not laid a finger on the deceased, but had merely urged the one who dealt the blow to keep on striking, was banished by the court of the Areopagus.
Iphigenia in Tauris
A sacred site in Attica where Athena decrees Iphigenia will serve as priestess and eventually be buried.
You, Iphigenia, must be key-holder for this goddess on the hallowed stairs of Brauron, and will die there and be buried;
The Histories
Site in Attica of the festival of Artemis where the exiled Pelasgians abducted Athenian women.
Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron.