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Headword:
Braurôn
Adler number: beta,521
Translated headword: Brauron
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place in Attica, in which the Dionysia used to be held and they would drink and snatch up many prostitutes. And
Aristophanes [writes]: "o master, how great a five-year-festival arse she has."[1] [This] is said because of the fact that the sacred Dionysiac delegations are sent every five years.[2]
See under "bear".[3]
Braurôn: topos tês Attikês, en hôi ta Dionusia êgonto kai methuontes pollas pornas hêrpazon. kai Aristophanês: ô despota, hosên echei tên prôktoetêrida. eirêtai de dia to dia pentaetêrous chronou agesthai tas theôrias tôn Dionusiôn. zêtei en tôi arktos.
Notes:
OCD(4) s.v. (pp.248-9).
[1]
Aristophanes,
Peace 875-6 (web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there.
[2] By Greek inclusive reckoning; we would say four.
[3]
alpha 3958. (NB: The deity honored at
Brauron was Artemis; why we are told about Dionysos is unclear.)
L.G. Kahil, 'Quelques vases du sanctuaire d'Artemis a Brauron', in Neue Ausgrabungen in Griechenland, Olten/Schweiz: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1963.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; comedy; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; religion; women
Translated by: Elizabeth Morgan on 7 June 2000@12:25:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and bibliography) on 19 September 2000@09:56:45.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 25 September 2002@04:40:45.
David Whitehead (corrected my own typo; augmented keywords; other cosmetics) on 15 July 2003@11:43:12.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 3 June 2012@08:24:02.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 13 August 2012@00:47:22.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 August 2014@05:51:49.
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