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Divison D: The Acropolis, from the Propylaea to the statue of Athene Lemnia
DOI chapter:Section XX
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with many a reactionary struggle of the older worship. If any
one sacrificed a heifer to Athene, he was bound, says Philochoros 144
(quoted by Harpocration), to sacrifice a sheep to Pandrosos. To
be an Arrephoros was to the later mind not so much to perform
a secret service to Eileithyia,145 as “ to wear a white garment
and gold ornaments.”146 Two of the four maidens were told
off to weave the peplos for Athene,147 a function which has no
obvious connection with the early, secret ceremonial.
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with many a reactionary struggle of the older worship. If any
one sacrificed a heifer to Athene, he was bound, says Philochoros 144
(quoted by Harpocration), to sacrifice a sheep to Pandrosos. To
be an Arrephoros was to the later mind not so much to perform
a secret service to Eileithyia,145 as “ to wear a white garment
and gold ornaments.”146 Two of the four maidens were told
off to weave the peplos for Athene,147 a function which has no
obvious connection with the early, secret ceremonial.
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