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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Most recent critics of Alcman's Partheneion have assumed that it was composed for a festival of Artemis Orthia, and have strengthened their case by adopting the scholiast's reading of Ὀρθίᾳ at 61 and assuming that ᾈώтι at 87 can only refer to Artemis. The case for Artemis has been made more popular by the excavations of her shrine, which have revealed copious evidence of a rich and popular cult with which festivals of maidens must have been connected. But on a closer examination the case for Artemis Orthia is seen to be based on fallacious evidence. First, let us consider the scholiast's suggestion of Ὀρθίᾳ which Bergk read at 61.
page 35 note 1 Ad loc. Anfh. Lyr. II, p. 15.
page 36 note 1 Cf. Wide, S., Lahmische Kulte, p. 100Google Scholar.
page 36 note 2 Cf. Farnell, L. R., Cults of the Greek States V 118 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 37 note 1 Hesychius θωσтήρια εὐωχηтήρια.
page 37 note 2 Or, with Lavagnini, οȊ ⋯ρƪσ]δει.
page 39 note 1 Κάνναθρα ⋯σтράβη ⋯ ἃμαζα πλέγμαтα ⋯χουσα, ὑϕ' ⋯ν πομπρὐουσιν αì παρθένοι, ὃтαν είς тò т⋯ς 'λένης ⋯πƖωσιν.
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page 39 note 3 Paus. III 19, 10.
page 39 note 4 Mitteil. d. ath. Inst. XV 330 ff.
page 39 note 5 A.V. X–XVI.
page 39 note 6 Cults of the Greek States, V, p. 245.
page 41 note 1 Cf. Pickard-Cambridge, A. W., Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, pp. 245–6Google Scholar.
page 41 note 2 Philologus LXVI, p. 15.
page 42 note 1 Philol. Unters. X, p. 186.
page 42 note 2 Cults of the Greek States III, p. 61.
page 42 note 3 Ib. p. 57.
page 42 note 4 Dittenberger S.I.G. p. 570.
