- the
lives of
Spartan women come from
archaic Gr**** poetry, such as the
partheneia ("maiden songs") of Alcman, a
Lydian poet who
lived and
worked in Sparta...
- ἐμὲ δὲ πρέπει παρθενήια μὲν φρονεῖν γλώσσᾳ τε λέγεσθαι. emè dè prépei
parthenḗia mèn phroneîn glṓssāi te légesthai. I must
think maidenly thoughts And...
-
Graces at Delphi. In Sparta,
girls of
marriageable age
performed the
partheneia (choral
maiden songs) in her honor. An
ancient Gr**** proverb, written...
- was an
English Jesuit writer. His best
known work is the
emblem book
Partheneia Sacra: Or the
Mysterious and
Delicious Garden of the
Sacred Parthenes...
-
ancient garbage dump at Oxyrhynchus. Most of
these fragments contain poems (
partheneia), but
there are also
other kinds of
hymns among them.
Pausanias says that...
-
offer religious devotion in the
forms of hymns, paeans, and dithyrambs.
Partheneia, "maiden-songs," were sung by
choruses of
maidens at festivals. Love poems...
-
interpreted as
concerning female homo****ual desire.
Alcman wrote hymns known as
partheneia,
which discuss attraction between young women.
Though these hymns are...
- 659 col. i (late
first century BCE or
early first century CE): Pindar,
Partheneia with a
coronis marking the end of a strophe.
Detail of P.Lit.Lond. 96...
-
Nieuwen Tijdt Adriaen van de
Venne (Netherlands?) 1632
Henry Hawkins Partheneia Sacra 1633
Etienne Luzvic Le cœur dévot 1634
translated into...
-
girls in
religious festivals, and were
related to the
ancient genre of
partheneia. The
poems may have been
performed at cult
celebrations in the places...
