Thesmophoria

"There will be a gathering of the people on the morning of the third day of the Thesmophoria, which is a day of rest for us; the principal business there shall be the punishment that it is meet to inflict upon Euripides for the insults with which he has loaded us."

The Thesmophoriazusae 2000

The Thesmophoria was another festival held in honour of Demeter, in her character as presiding over marriage and social institutions resulting from the spread of agriculture.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

These people undoubtedly had been at the festival (known as the Thesmophoria) and had eaten freely of roast pig, Those who took part in another Greek mystery or festival (known as the Eleusinia) abstained from certain food, and above all from beans.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

There was a set of mysteries at Athens, called Thesmophoria, and one at

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

Thesmophoria, which is a day of rest for us; the principal business there shall be the punishment that it is meet to inflict upon Euripides for the insults with which he has loaded us. "

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

In addition to Frogs with its face-off between Aeschylus and Euripides there is the more obscure Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria, which calls mimêsis a disruption of life and opposes it to nature.

Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008

The senate was seated in the arcade or stoa in the market-place, since the Cadmeia was in possession of the women who were celebrating the Thesmophoria. 441

Hellenica 2007

Pyanepsion, the most sad and solemn day of the Thesmophoria, which the women observe by fasting in the temple of the goddess.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

(The tongue-twister of a title means "Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria" — an annual, all-female fertility festival associated with Demeter.)

The Bad Boy of Athens Mendelsohn, Daniel 2003

I am going to beg Agathon, the tragic poet, to go to the Thesmophoria.

The Thesmophoriazusae 2000