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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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The Daughters of Kekrops 241

rather than the Arrhephoria that were connected by the ancients
with the life and death of Agraulos1 or Aglauros2. And naturally
so; for the Kallynteria fell on the nineteenth, the Plynteria probably
on the twenty-fifth of Thargelion, and modern meteorological records
taken in the Botanical Garden at Athens show that heavy dews
begin to fail in May, are lacking throughout June, July, and August,
and begin to return in September3. In mythological parlance,
Aglauros, 'the Sparkling One,' dies. Her death was associated with
the Plynteria, a very ill-omened day in Thargelion (May—June).
Three weeks later, in the middle of Skirophorion (June—July), when
the dew was rarer still, it became necessary to fertilise Mother
Earth, not only with white clay (skiros) used as a manure, but also
by means of a ceremonial dew-bearing. This was done in the
Arrhephoria, as we have already seen.

Closer investigation4 makes it probable that Aglauros, Pandrosos,
and Herse were not originally a triad of sisters. Of the three,
Aglauros appears to have been the eldest and most venerable.
Euripides speaks of them all as 'the Aglaurid maidens5' or, again,

Pauly—Wissowa Real-Eiu. i. 828 identifies these TeXeras xai /xvarripia with the bpyia...
"■T&ppriTa. performed by the Praxiergidai at the Plynteria (Plout. v. Alk. 34).

Bekker anecd. i. 239, 7 ff. Aeiirvofidpos ■ eopriis bvop.a. AeiwvotpopLa yap e<rrt to <ptpeiv
<>ziwa. Tais KeKpoiros 9vya.Tp6.Uiv "E/51T17 Kal Ylavopoau Kal 'AypavXy. ((pipero Si ttoXvtcXQs
KaTa Tiva iivvtlkov Xbyov. Kal touto eiroiovv oi iroXXoi' 0iXort^tas yap e'ix^to is discredited
°y K. F. Hermann Lehrbuch der griechischen Antiquitdlen Heidelberg 1832 i § 56, 12 and
^lomnrsen Feste d. Stadt Athen p. 284 n. 4 (' Herse und Aglauros mochte man als erste
Ersephoren ansehen, und da die Ersephoren im Pyanopsion den Peplos zu beginnen
Wten [supra pp. 166, 212], so ward die diesem Monat angehorige Speisung, welche
^en Oschophoren gait [Philochoros ap. Bekker anecd. i. 239, 11 ff.], fur die Ersephoren
111 Anspruch genommen'). But see J. Toepffer in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 829 and
'nfra p. 242 n. 10.

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c"ri?3eiJa„ • Kai yfrp y-Q ocaXXweic > Kocrfieiv Kal Xap-irpiveiv eariv. The words inserted are
Ue to S. A. Naber, who cp. Bekker anecd. i. 270, 1 ff. airb toO KaXXiveiv Kal Koop.eiv
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3 Mommsen Feste d. Sladl Athen p. 8 n. 2, cp. infra § 9 (h) ii (e).

Miss J. E. Harrison 'The Three Daughters of Cecrops' in the Journ. Hell. Stud.
9> xii. 350—355 was, so far as I know, the first to attempt any general investigation
the subject. She was followed by H. Usener Gdtternamen Bonn 1896 p. 135 ff. And
e> by B. Powell Erichthonius and the three Daughters of Cecrops (Cornell Studies in
hssical Philology xvii) Ithaca, New York 1906 pp. 1—86 figs. 1 —12.
Eur. Ion 23 taptiivois' AyXavpiat (cod. P, supra p. 239 n. 1).
C. in. 16
 
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