TAUROPOLIA. - A Greek festival celebrated in the Attic deme of Halae in honor of Artemis Tauropolos, the ancient bull goddess whose cult came from Asia Minor.
The only information about it comes from Menander's Epitrepontes, from a doubtful gloss of Hesychius, and from Euripides (Iphigen. taurica, v.1449) that seems to allude to a similarity, or relation, between this festival and the Brauronia (v.); from these scanty elements one can say only that connected with the T. was a vigil, in which married women and young girls took part, the latter venerating Artemis with music and dances; and that, as a clear symbol of human sacrifice, a man had to be grazed on the neck with a sword so that blood would come out.
BibliographyL. Deubner, Attische Feste, Berlin 1932, pp. 208-209.
BIBL.: L. Deubner, Attische Feste, Berlin 1932, pp. 208-209.
D'Onofrio, Cesare. “Tauropólia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1801. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/tauropolia.
MLA
D'Onofrio, Cesare. “Tauropólia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1801. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tauropolia.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_tauropolia,
author = {D'Onofrio, Cesare},
title = {Tauropólia},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1801},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tauropolia}
}
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