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Headword: Φιλλεῖδαι
Adler number: phi,319
Translated headword: Philleidai, Philleids
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
It is a clan [genos] at Athens. From its members [comes] the priestess of Demeter and Kore, she who initiates the initiates at Eleusis.
Greek Original:
Φιλλεῖδαι: γένος ἐστὶν Ἀθήνησιν: ἐκ δὲ τούτων ἡ ἱέρεια τῆς Δήμητρος καὶ Κόρης, ἡ μύουσα τοὺς μύστας ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι.
Notes:
= Photius (and before him, according to Keaney, Harpokration) s.v.; cf. Etym.Magn. 793.45 (opening phrase only).
Kevin Clinton, The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Philadelphia 1972) 76; Robert Parker, Athenian Religion (Oxford 1996) 317.
Keywords: definition; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 November 2001@07:57:25.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 6 September 2002@11:49:56.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; cosmetics) on 12 December 2003@11:51:31.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 13 July 2011@10:40:53.
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