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 Translation “To tithe”: (…) Demosthenes in his Against Medon says the following about some maiden “not to tithe or initiate her”. Didymos the grammarian, writing a book about this speech, says that Lysias stated in the (speech) About the daughter of Phrynichos that to tithe is to serve as bear. To tithe, he says, therefore surely referred to the act of consecrating, since indeed it was a Greek habit to consecrate the tenth parts of the spoils of war to the gods. Perhaps the orator says that to tithe is to serve as bear because the ten-year-old girls tended to serve as bears. Translation used translation by Alexander Meeus for the Cynisca project Text Any textual data included in the document Δεκατεύειν· (...) Δημοσθένους δ’ ἐν τῷ Κατὰ Μέδοντος περί τινος παρθένου λέγοντος οὕτως: “οὐ δεκατεῦσαι ταύτην οὐδὲ μυῆσαι,” Δίδυμος ὁ γραμματικὸς περὶ τούτου βιβλίον γράψας φησὶν ὅτι τὸ δεκατεῦσαι Λυσίας ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῆς Φρυνίχου θυγατρὸς ἀρκτεῦσαι εἴρηκεν. δεκατεῦσαι μέντοι, φησίν, ἐλέγετο κυρίως τὸ καθιερῶσαι, ἐπειδήπερ ἔθος ἦν Ἑλληνικὸν τὰς δεκάτας τῶν περιγινομένων τοῖς θεοῖς καθιεροῦν. ἴσως δὲ τὸ ἀρκτεῦσαι δεκατεῦσαι εἴρηκεν ὁ ῥήτωρ, ἐπειδὴ αἱ δεκέτιδες ἤρκτευον. Edition used Wilhelm Dindorf (ed.), Harpocrationis Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos, Oxford 1853. 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. 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. Δεκατεύειν (Δ16 Keaney): female participants of the rites in 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 Phrynichos ritual