[71] Its home was Sparta; it was introduced into Athens in the sixth century B.C. in the time of Pisistratus; ultimately it became a mere war game. [72] See A. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_, pp. 98 ff. (1898), where details will be found; an interesting account of the great procession is given on pp. 131 ff.; see also the same author’s _Heortologie_, pp. 116-205 (1864). [73] Cp. Gruppe, _Griechische Mythologie_, I. 165, 167, II. 1198 f., etc. (1906). [74] Hesiod, _Theog._ 259; Thucydides, IV. 3; Livy, XXVI. 9; Virgil, _Aeneid_ VIII. 285; Plutarch, _Thes._ 21 (_EB_, I. 998); and see especially Emmanuel, _La Danse Grecque antique_, pp. 285 ff. (1896). [75] On the whole subject of the worship of Dionysos see Foucart, _Le culte de Dionysos en Attique_ (1906). For the dances in connexion with his worship see below, pp. 121 ff. [76] Quoted by Andrew Lang, _Myth, Ritual and Religion_, I. 272 (1901). See also de la Saussaye, _op. cit._ II. 246. [77] _The Cults of the Greek States_, II. 472 (1909). [78] See the first line in the quotation from the _Iliad_ on p. 70. [79] These details are from Sittl, _Archäologie der Kunst_, pp. 378 f. (1895), where much further information will be found. [80] Ohnefalsch-Richter, _op. cit._ vol. II., No. cxxvii. 2. [81] _Ibid._ No. cxxviii. 3. [82] Cat. E, 695 [83] Such as Müller und Wieseler, _Denkmäler der alten Kunst_, see _e.g._ I. plate XLIV (1854 ...); Jane E. Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_ (1903), who gives a number of illustrations. [84] These were sometimes of a lascivious character. [85] _Op. cit._ II. 472; see also p. 463. [86] III. x. 7 (Frazer’s ed.). See further, the interesting notes in Hitzig et Bluemner’s _Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio_, I. 766 (1896). [87] III. p. 320; see also Hitzig et Bluemner, _in loc._; Farnell, _op. cit._ II. 472. [88] IV. xvi. 9. It recalls the episode of the maidens of Shiloh dancing in honour of Jahwe, Judg. xxi. 19 ff. [89] Cp. Emmanuel, _La Danse Grecque antique_ (1896); for illustrations see Müller und Wieseler, _op. cit._ II. 17188 ff. [90] Ramsay, in the _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, IV. 36 (1883). [91] Cp. Reinach, _Orpheus_, p. 123 (1909): “Les jeunes filles athéniennes, qui célèbrent le culte de l’Artémis-ourse, s’habillent en ourses et se disent des ourses.” [92] _Op. cit._ II. 436 f.; see further Gruppe, _op. cit._ II. 1284, 1293; Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, 1086 (1829); Bekker, _Anecdota Graeca_, I. 445 (1814-21); Lübker, _Real-Lex. des Klassischen Altertums_, s.v. Artemis (1914); Hesychius, s.v. Βραυρωνίοις; Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_, pp. 456 ff.; _Heortologie_, pp. 406 ff.; and see also Pausan. I. xxiii. 7. Cp. the custom among the Azimba of east-central Africa, when maidens attain puberty they celebrate the occasion by a dance in which only women take part: see Hartland in _Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor_, p. 197 (1907). [93] III. xi. 7.