A Yellow Dress at Chilly Brauron: The Taming of Wild Girls
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i4.31Keywords:
paganism, women, feminism, sexualityAbstract
Two years ago, I set out to write a historical novel about the Eleusinian Mysteries. On the way to Eleusis I turned in the opposite direction, following another ancient pilgrimage, to the marshy shores of Brauron, and the childhood of women, where the story begins.References
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Kahil, Lily. “L’Artemis de Brauron: Rites et Mystere”, Antike Kunst 20 (1977) 86-98 and plates
Kontis (Condis) J. “Artemis Brauronia”, Archaeologikon Deltion 22A (1967) 156-206 (in Greek, summary in French)
Linders, T.L. Studies in the treasure records of Artemis Brauronia found in Athens. Stockholm 1972
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. “Artemis and Iphignia”, Jour. Hellenistic Studies CIII (1983) 87- 102
Osborne, Robin. “Archeology, the Salaminioi, and the Politics of Sacred Space in Archaic Attica.” In Placing the Gods, Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece, ed. Susan E Alcock and Robin Osborne, 143-160. Oxford: Clarendon 1994
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves, Women in Classical Antiquity (1975) 68-70
Reeder, Ellen D. Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995 321-328, 303, 335
Sale, William. “The Temple-legends of the Arkteia”, Philologie 118 (1975) 265-284
Seaford, Richard. “The Eleventh Ode of Bacchylides, Hera, Artemis and the absence of Dionysos”, Jour. Hellenistic Studies CVIII (1988) 118-136
Souvrinou-Inwood, C. Studies in Girls’ Transitions: Aspects of the Arkteia and Age Representation in Attic Iconography Athens: Kardamitsa 1988
Themelis, Petros G. Brauron, Guide to the Site and Museum. Apollo Editions, 1971.
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1998-05-01
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Slater, K. (1998). A Yellow Dress at Chilly Brauron: The Taming of Wild Girls. Pomegranate, 4(Spring), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i4.31
