At Agrae[6] on the Ilissos, where she was believed to have first hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera had a temple, dating to the 5th century BC, with a statue carrying a bow.[7] During the Boedromia, on the seventh day of Boedromion (roughly, the beginning of September), an armed procession would take 600 goats to this temple,[8][9] where they would all be sacrificed by the polemarch in honor of the victory at the Battle of Marathon. This rite derived from a vow made before the Battle of Marathon,[10] which in turn derived from the custom of making a "slaughter sacrifice", or sphagion (σφάγιον), to Artemis Agrotera before a battle. The temple was destroyed in 1778,[5] when the Ottoman forces occupying Athens set about demolishing ancient sites for building material to construct a wall around the city.[11] The ruins of the temple survive today on Ardettou Street, tightly surrounded by modern buildings. There is an ongoing campaign for the expropriation of adjacent buildings and the restoration of the temple.[12]
Under this name Agrotera was also worshiped at Aigeira,[13]Sparta, and elsewhere.[14] The name Agrotera is synonymous with the epithet Agraea, but Eustathius derives it from the town of Agrae.[15][16][17]
The epithet Agrotera was also sometimes applied to the nymphCyrene.[18]
agrotera, genus, moths, moth, Ἀγροτέρα, huntress, epithet, greek, goddess, artemis, most, important, goddess, attic, hunters, agrae, ilissos, where, believed, have, first, hunted, after, arrival, from, delos, artemis, temple, dating, century, with, statue, car. For the genus of moths see Agrotera moth Agrotera Gr Ἀgrotera the huntress 1 was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis 2 3 4 the most important goddess to Attic hunters 5 At Agrae 6 on the Ilissos where she was believed to have first hunted after her arrival from Delos Artemis Agrotera had a temple dating to the 5th century BC with a statue carrying a bow 7 During the Boedromia on the seventh day of Boedromion roughly the beginning of September an armed procession would take 600 goats to this temple 8 9 where they would all be sacrificed by the polemarch in honor of the victory at the Battle of Marathon This rite derived from a vow made before the Battle of Marathon 10 which in turn derived from the custom of making a slaughter sacrifice or sphagion sfagion to Artemis Agrotera before a battle The temple was destroyed in 1778 5 when the Ottoman forces occupying Athens set about demolishing ancient sites for building material to construct a wall around the city 11 The ruins of the temple survive today on Ardettou Street tightly surrounded by modern buildings There is an ongoing campaign for the expropriation of adjacent buildings and the restoration of the temple 12 Under this name Agrotera was also worshiped at Aigeira 13 Sparta and elsewhere 14 The name Agrotera is synonymous with the epithet Agraea but Eustathius derives it from the town of Agrae 15 16 17 The epithet Agrotera was also sometimes applied to the nymph Cyrene 18 References Edit ἀgrotera Liddell Henry George Scott Robert A Greek English Lexicon at the Perseus Project Homer Iliad xxi 471 Xenophon Cynegeticus 6 13 Bacchylides 11 37 42 a b Parker Robert 2005 Polytheism and Society in Athens Oxford University Press pp 56 178 400 419 ISBN 0 19 921611 8 A town or district in the southeast of ancient Athens proper the exact place where the temple once stood is located at the Mets neighbourhood of modern Athens delimited by the Ardittou Koutoula Kephalou or Meletiou Piga and Thomopoulou streets 37 58 03 N 23 44 07 E 37 967564 N 23 735290 E 37 967564 23 735290 Pausanias Description of Greece i 19 7 Plutarch On the Malice of Herodotus 26 862a Aristophanes in The Knights places the number of sacrificed goats at 1000 while Aelian records it as 300 Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Agroteras Thusia Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 1 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 427 Petropoulos Thrasy 2006 01 12 Demolition begins on priceless site Athens News pp A05 Archived from the original on 2008 06 13 Retrieved 2008 06 05 The sacred site of the temple of Artemis an endangered Site Archived from the original on 2008 06 10 Retrieved 2008 06 06 Pausanias Description of Greece vii 26 2 Xenophon Hellenica iv 2 20 Eustathius On the Iliad p 361 Concerning the worship of Artemis Agrotera at Athens see Dict of Ant s v Ἀgroteras 8ysia p 31 Schmitz Leonhard 1867 Agrotera In Smith William ed Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Vol 1 Boston Little Brown and Company p 83 Archived from the original on 2011 05 14 Retrieved 2008 06 06 Pindar Pythian Odes 9 6External links EditArtemisAgrotera org information on the archaeological site of the temple of Artemis Agrotera This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Smith William ed 1870 Agrotera Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Agrotera amp oldid 1106333211, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
