Artemis Hymnia

First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 5

Life events

• Arcadians stoned Aristocrates after he defiled Artemis Hymnia’s priestess, changing the priestess custom.(Book 8 · Chapter 5 · 📍 temple of Artemis Hymnia)
  • With: Aristocrates (grandfather)
  • “And when his wickedness was reported to the Arcadians they stoned him to death, and their custom was thenceforward changed.”

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• with Aristocrates (grandfather) (Aristocrates committed sacrilege at Artemis's altar.) “Aristocrates, as she resisted all his attempts to seduce her, and fled at last for refuge to the altar near the statue of Artemis, defiled her there.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.