- Acropolis. They were
seven to
eleven years old.
According to Pausanias, two
Arrephoroi lived for a year on the
Acropolis and
concluded their term with a mystery...
-
paradigm for a
yearly ritual that was
carried out by the
Arrephoroi during this time. The
Arrephoroi consisted of two
young girls selected from Athens' aristocratic...
- last day of the
month Pyanepsion, the
priestess of
Athena Polias and the
Arrephoroi, a
group of
girls chosen to help in the
making of the
sacred peplos, set...
- by the
priestesses of
Athena and the
Arrephoroi. From the loom, a
great peplos is
warped and woven. The
Arrephoroi were
young girls, not much more than...
- The
Arrephorion or
House of the
Arrephoroi is a
building conjectured to have been on the
Acropolis of
Athens based on a p****age in Pausanias. The discovery...
- Parthenon, and was the
chief of the
lesser officials such as the plyntrides,
arrephoroi and kanephoroi.
Athena Polias ("Athena of the City") was one of the three...
- by J.B. Bury. One
theory is that the
Parthenon was the room
where the
arrephoroi, a
group of four
young girls chosen to
serve Athena each year, wove a...
- god
Apollo instead.
During the
Lesser Panathenaea young girls known as
arrephoroi would carry a
specially woven peplos robe to
place on the
wooden cult...
- that the
korai carried phiale,
suggesting that they
might be
either the
arrephoroi (as "bearers of
unmentionable things") or kanephoroi. The six
korai of...
- play a
central role in the cult of
Athena here. She also
notes that the
arrephoroi were
involved in the
weaving of the peplos,
specifically warping the looms...
