ritual

Thesmophoria

Rituals

A named Greek women’s festival of Demeter and Persephone with fasting and fertility rites. Not Eleusinian Mysteries alone, not a bare harvest dump, and not Dionysia.

Also known as Thesmophoria festival · Greek Thesmophoria

Hellenic religion

  • Thesmophoria appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names the Thesmophoria among Demeter women’s festival speech in Greek cities. A named Thesmophoria in that periegesis, not Eleusinian Mysteries alone and not a generic harvest dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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