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One of the many myths surrounding the Cult of Artemis at Brauron originates with the story of Iphigenia.In the story of the Trojan War, as described by Aeschylus, the Greeks had earned the disfavor of Artemis by shooting one of her sacred stags and thus were unable to put to sea against the Trojans due to disfavorable winds, conjured by the goddess.
Calydon is considered the origin of the cult of Artemis Laphria at Patras. In the Aetolian calendar there was the month Laphrios. [276] Near the city there was the temple of Apollo Laphrius; [291] Nafpaktos in Aetolia. Cult of Artemis Laphria. [292] Acarnania. Cult of Artemis-Agrotera (huntress) in a society of hunters. [276] Peloponnese
Cult activity is known from the 8th century BCE forward from dedications in the sacred spring, and a temple was built in the 6th century BCE. The Arkteia festival was celebrated every four years and involved a procession from the shrine of Artemis Brauronia on the acropolis of Athens, 24.5 km WNW of the sanctuary. [8]
The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia (white star) near Sparta in the PeloponnesusThe Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, an Archaic site devoted in Classical times to Artemis, was one of the most important religious sites in the Greek city-state of Sparta, and continued to be used into the fourth century CE, [1] [2] when all non-Christian worship was banned during the persecution of pagans in the late ...
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον; Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equated with the Roman goddess Diana). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey).
The Temple of Artemis Amarynthia was a sanctuary in Amarynthos in Euboea, dedicated to the goddess Artemis. It was a significant shrine of Artemis and arguably the foremost center of her cult in Northern Greece. Archeological excavations reveal the date of founding to the 6th-century BC.
In 346 BC, a second cult statue was erected. According to Pausanias, it was a work by Praxiteles. [1] Pausanias wrote: There is also a sanctuary [at Athens] of Artemis Brauronia (of Brauron); the image is the work of Praxiteles, but the goddess derives her name from the parish of Brauron.
' Artemis the queen '). [5] The cult of Bendis in Thrace was performed in open-air rock sanctuaries. [21] Bendis as identified with the Greek Artemis Phōsphoros was the main deity of the city of Kabyle, where was located a Phōsphorion (lit. ' temple of Phosphoros '), [22] and where she enjoyed a cult along with the Thracian "Apollo."