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subject	book bibliographic info
demeter/despoina	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 96
despoina	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 158 Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 351 Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 190 Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 152 Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 75, 95, 179
despoina, goddess	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 102
despoina, kybebe/le, as	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 297
despoina, mystery cults, of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 179
despoina, sanctuary at lycosura	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 16, 17, 217, 218

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "despoina"

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.37.8-8.37.9 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Demeter/Despoina • Despoina • Despoina, sanctuary at Lycosura

Found in books: Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 158; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 217; Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 96

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8.37.8 παρὰ δὲ τὸν ναὸν τῆς Δεσποίνης ὀλίγον ἐπαναβάντι ἐν δεξιᾷ Μέγαρόν ἐστι καλούμενον, καὶ τελετήν τε δρῶσιν ἐνταῦθα καὶ τῇ Δεσποίνῃ θύουσιν ἱερεῖα οἱ Ἀρκάδες πολλά τε καὶ ἄφθονα. θύει μὲν δὴ αὐτῶν ἕκαστος ὅ τι κέκτηται· τῶν ἱερείων δὲ οὐ τὰς φάρυγγας ἀποτέμνει ὥσπερ ἐπὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις θυσίαις, κῶλον δὲ ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ, τοῦτο ἕκαστος ἀπέκοψε τοῦ θύματος. ^8.37.9 ταύτην μάλιστα θεῶν σέβουσιν οἱ Ἀρκάδες τὴν Δέσποιναν, θυγατέρα δὲ αὐτὴν Ποσειδῶνός φασιν εἶναι καὶ Δήμητρος. ἐπίκλησις ἐς τοὺς πολλούς ἐστιν αὐτῇ Δέσποινα, καθάπερ καὶ τὴν ἐκ Διὸς Κόρην ἐπονομάζουσιν, ἰδίᾳ δέ ἐστιν ὄνομα Περσεφόνη, καθὰ Ὅμηρος καὶ ἔτι πρότερον Πάμφως ἐποίησαν· τῆς δὲ Δεσποίνης τὸ ὄνομα ἔδεισα ἐς τοὺς ἀτελέστους γράφειν.'' None

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8.37.8 When you have gone up a little, beside the temple of the Mistress on the right is what is called the Hall, where the Arcadians celebrate mysteries, and sacrifice to the Mistress many victims in generous fashion. Every man of them sacrifices what he possesses. But he does not cut the throats of the victims, as is done in other sacrifices; each man chops off a limb of the sacrifice, just that which happens to come to hand.' "^8.37.9 This Mistress the Arcadians worship more than any other god, declaring that she is a daughter of Poseidon and Demeter. Mistress is her surname among the many, just as they surname Demeter's daughter by Zeus the Maid. But whereas the real name of the Maid is Persephone, as Homer See Hom. Od. 10.491, and Hom. Il. 9.457, Hom. Il. 9.569 . and Pamphos before him say in their poems, the real name of the Mistress I am afraid to write to the uninitiated."' None

2. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Despoina at Lykosoura, sanctuary of (Arkadia) • Despoina, sanctuary at Lycosura

Found in books: Connelly (2007), Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, 91; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 16

3. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Despoina at Lykosoura, sanctuary of (Arkadia) • Despoina, sanctuary at Lycosura

Found in books: Connelly (2007), Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, 90; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 17, 217, 218

4. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Despoina • Despoina, sanctuary at Lycosura

Found in books: Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 17; Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 152

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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