Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron

Strabo: On doubling the cape of Sunium one comes to Sunium, a noteworthy deme; then to Thoricus; then to a deme called Potamus, whose inhabitants are called Potamii; then to Prasia, to Steiria, to Brauron, where is the temple of the Artemis Brauronia, to Halae Araphenides, where is the temple of Artemis Tauropolus¹.

Pausanias: I remember looking at other things also on the Athenian Acropolis, a bronze boy holding the sprinkler, by Lycius son of Myron, and Myron's Perseus after beheading Medusa. There is also a sanctuary of Brauronian Artemis; the image is the work of Praxiteles, but the goddess derives her name from the parish of Brauron. The old wooden image is in Brauron, the Tauric Artemis as she is called².

In ancient times the sanctuary was on the coast.

Sources:

1. John J. Coulton,, BRAURON (Vraona) Attica, Greece, in: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.
2. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
3. The Geography of Strabo. Literally translated, with notes, in three volumes. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903
4. Brian Clark, BRAURON. The Sacred Sanctuary of Artemis- https://www.astrosynthesis.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sanctuary-of-Artemis-Brauron-Brian-Clark.pdf

Bronverwijzingen

1. ↑Strabo. 9.1.22
2. ↑Pausanias, I.23