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Artemis Eukleia and Euripides' Hippolytus*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

D. C. Braund
D. C. Braund
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Churchill College, Cambridge
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In connection with a temple of Artemis Eukleia at Plataea, Plutarch tells us that Eukleia was commonly identified with Artemis: τὴν δ᾿ Εὔκλειαν μὲν πολλοὶ καὶ καλοῦσι καὶ νομίζουσιν ᾿´ Αρτεμν(Plut. Arist. 20.6). His testimony is supported by Pausanias, who mentions a temple of Artemis Eukleia at Thebes (Paus. ix 17.1). Plutarch goes on to tell us that the cult of Eukleia was widespread, at the same time giving us a glimpse of its followers: βωμὸς γὰρ αὐτῇ καὶ ἄγαλμα κατὰ πᾶσαν ἀγορὰν ἴδρυται καὶ προθύουσιν αἵ τε γαμούμεναι καὶ οἱ γαμοῦντες(Plut. ibid.). He has himself already mentioned Eukleia's temple at Plataea and we may add the festival of Eukleia at Corinth reported by Xenophon. More important perhaps for the present discussion, Pausanias mentions a temple of Eukleia situated in the agora at Athens: ἔτι δὲ ἀπωτέρω ναὸς Εὐκλείας, ἀνάθημα καὶ τοῦτο ἀπὸ Μήδων, οῖ τῆς χώρας Μαραθῶνι ἔσχον φρονῆσαι δὲ ᾿ Αθηναίους ἐπὶ τῇ νίκῃ ταύτῃ μάλιστα εἰκάζω (Paus. i 14.5).

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 100 , 1980 , pp. 184 - 185
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1980

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1 Plut., Arist. 20.5Google Scholar; Xen., Hell. iv 4.2Google Scholar: cf. Farnell, L. R.The Cults of the Greek States (Oxford 1896) ii 575Google Scholar n. 66.

2 Cf. Frazer, J. G.Pausanias's Description of Greece (London 1898) ii 124Google Scholar.

3 Cf. Barrett, W. S. (ed.) Euripides' Hippolytos (Oxford 1964) 263Google Scholarad 545–64. I cite Barrett's text throughout. On the goddesses as a frame cf. Winnington-Ingram, R. P., ‘Hippolytus: A Study in Causation’ in Euripide: Entr. sur I'Ant. Class, vi (Fond. Hardt 1960) 172Google Scholar.

4 On the central importance of eukleia in this play cf. Knox, B. M. W., ‘The Hippolytus of Euripides’, YCS xiii (1952) 17–18Google Scholar; also Winningtonlngram (n. 3) 177, 179–81, 184; Frischer, B. D., ‘“Concordia Discors” and Characterisation in Euripides' Hippolytus’, GRBS xi (1970) 85–100Google Scholar; Segal, C. P., ‘Shame and Purity in Euripides’ Hippolytus', Hermes xcviii (1970) 278–99Google Scholar.

5 So Segal, C. P., ‘The Tragedy of the Hippolytus: the Waters of Ocean and the Untouched Meadow’, HSCP lxx (1965) 159Google Scholar; cf. Winnington-lngram (n. 3) 172; B. D. Frischer (n. 4).

6 Cf. Segal (n. 5) 123–5.

7 Plut., Arist. 20.6Google Scholar (cited above); cf. L. R. Farnell (n. 1) ii 568 n. 45, 575 n. 66.

8 With Barrett ad loc. and 3–6; cf. lines 1140–1.

9 Ad 210: cf. Segal (n. 5) 122.