Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contests Description An account of the resource Sources that contain specific information about contests for women or girls. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Source Type Physical type of source Literary source Commentary On this ritual, see Christopher A. Faraone, “Playing the Bear and Fawn for Artemis: Female Initiation or Substitute Sacrifice?” in David B. Dodd/Christopher A. Faraone (eds.), Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives, London 2003, 43-68. Translation “To serve as bear”: Lysias, in the speech for Phrynichos’ daughter, if it is genuine, (describes) the consecration of the unmarried girls to Artemis in Mounychia or in Brauron (with this word). And things pertaining to this are mentioned by others as well as by Krateros in his (work on) <em>Decrees</em>. That the maidens “serving as bear” were called bears is shown in Eurpides’ <em>Hypsipyle</em> and in Aristophanes’ <em>Lemnian women</em> and <em>Lysistrata</em>. Translation used translation by Alexander Meeus for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document Ἀρκτεῦσαι· Λυσίας ἐν τῷ Ὑπὲρ Φρυνίχου θυγατρός, εἰ γνήσιος, τὸ καθιερωθῆναι πρὸ γάμων τὰς παρθένους τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι τῇ Μουνυχίᾳ ἢ τῇ Βραυρωνίᾳ. τὰ δὲ συντείνοντα εἰς τὸ προκείμενον εἴρηται παρά τε ἄλλοις καὶ Κρατερῷ ἐν τοῖς Ψηφίσμασιν. ὅτι δὲ αἱ ἀρκτευόμεναι παρθένοι ἄρκτοι καλοῦνται, Εὐριπίδης Ὑψιπύλῃ, Ἀριστοφάνης Λημνίαις καὶ Λυσιστράτῃ. Edition used Wilhelm Dindorf (ed.), Harpocrationis Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos, Oxford 1853. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Valerius Harpokration, Lexicon in Decem Oratores Atticos s.v. Ἀρκτεῦσαι (A235 Keaney): female participants of the rites in Mounychia and Brauron Type The nature or genre of the resource Lexicon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1st/2nd century CE (?) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Valerius Harpokration Brauron Hypsipyle Lysistrata Mounychia Phrynichos race