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Division A: The Agora and adjacent buildings lying to the west and north of the Acropolis, from the city gate to the Prytaneion
DOI Kapitel:Section V
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brilliant comedies the Women celebrating the Thesmophoria, it
is somewhat disappointing that we can gather from the piece no
details of the ceremonies. In the nature of the case, however,
no such information could be expected. Aristophanes, as a man,
FIG. 24.—HEAD OF EUBOULEUS (CENTRAL MUSEUM, ATHENS).
could not be initiated, and had any forbidden knowledge come
to his ears he dared not have divulged it or he would have fared
much worse than his hero Mnesilochus. One point, however, of
the first topographical importance the Thesmophoriazousae sets at
OF ANCIENT A TH ENS
105
brilliant comedies the Women celebrating the Thesmophoria, it
is somewhat disappointing that we can gather from the piece no
details of the ceremonies. In the nature of the case, however,
no such information could be expected. Aristophanes, as a man,
FIG. 24.—HEAD OF EUBOULEUS (CENTRAL MUSEUM, ATHENS).
could not be initiated, and had any forbidden knowledge come
to his ears he dared not have divulged it or he would have fared
much worse than his hero Mnesilochus. One point, however, of
the first topographical importance the Thesmophoriazousae sets at