[16:1] Frequently dual, τὼ Θεσμοφόρω, under the influence of the 'Mother and Maiden' idea; Dittenberger _Inscr. Sylloge_ 628, Ar. _Thesm._ 84, 296 _et passim_. The plural αἱ Θεσμοφόροι used in late Greek is not, as one might imagine, a projection from the whole band of worshippers; it is merely due to the disappearance of the dual from Greek. I accept provisionally the derivation of these θεσμοί from θεσ- in θέσσασθαι, θέσφατος, θέσκελος, πολύθεστος, ἀπόθεστος, &c.: cf. A. W. Verrall in _J. H. S._ xx, p. 114; and _Prolegomena_, pp. 48 ff., 136 f. But, whatever the derivation, the Thesmoi were the objects carried. [16:2] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, ii. 44 ff.; A. B. Cook, _J. H. S._ xiv, pp. 153-4; J. E. Harrison, _Themis_, p. 5. See also A. Lang, _Homeric Hymns_, 1899, p. 63. [17:1] _Feste der Stadt Athen_, p. 390 f. On Seed Jars, Wine Jars and Funeral Jars, see _Themis_, pp. 276-88, and Warde Fowler, 'Mundus Patet,' in _Journ. Roman Studies_, ii, pp. 25 ff. Cf. below, p. 28 f. [17:2] Dieterich, _Muttererde_, 1905, p. 48 f. [18:1] Dr. Frazer, _The Magic Art_, ii. 137, thinks it not certain that the γάμος took place during the Anthesteria, at the same time as the oath of the γεραιραί. Without the γάμος, however, it is hard to see what the βασίλιννα and γεραιραί had to do in the festival; and this is the view of Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_, pp. 391-3; Gruppe in Iwan Müller, _Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte_, i. 33; Farnell, _Cults_, v. 217. [18:2] One might perhaps say, in all three. Ἀνθίστηρος τοῦ Πυθοχρηστοῦ κοινόν is the name of a society of worshippers in the island of Thera, _I. G. I._ iii. 329. This gives a god Anthister, who is clearly identified with Dionysus, and seems to be a projection of a feast Anthisteria = Anthesteria. The inscription is of the second century B. C. and it seems likely that Anthister-Anthisteria, with their clear derivation from ἀνθίζειν, are corruptions of the earlier and difficult forms Ἀνθέστηρ-Ἀνθεστήρια. It is noteworthy that Thera, an island lying rather outside the main channels of civilization, kept up throughout its history a tendency to treat the 'epithet' as a full person. Hikesios and Koures come very early; also Polieus and Stoichaios without the name Zeus; Delphinios, Karneios, Aiglatas, and Aguieus without Apollo. See Hiller von Gaertringen in the _Festschrift für O. Benndorff_, p. 228. Also Nilsson, _Griechische Feste_, 1906, p. 267, n. 5. [20:1] Miss Harrison, 'Bird and Pillar Worship in relation to Ouranian Divinities', _Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religion_, Oxford, 1908, vol. ii, p. 154; Farnell, _Greece and Babylon_, 1911, pp. 66 ff. [20:2] First published by R. Paribeni, 'Il Sarcofago dipinto di Hagia Triada', in _Monumenti antichi della R. Accademia dei Lincei_, xix, 1908, p. 6, T. i-iii. See also _Themis_, pp. 158 ff. [20:3] Ar. _Equites_, 82-4--or possibly of apotheosis. See _Themis_, p. 154, n. 2.