Note 382 — Chapter IV · THE WOMEN’S FESTIVALS. Thesmophoria, Arrephoria, Skirophoria, Stenia, Haloa.
Reading edition
The sources for the Eleusinian Mysteries are collected in Lobeck’s Aglaophamus. Reference to inscriptions discovered since Lobeck’s days will be found in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dictionnaire des Antiquités, s.v. The best general account in English is that by Prof. Ramsay in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in French two articles reprinted from the Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. XXXV. 2nd part 1895, and vol. XXXVII. 1900, entitled ‘Recherches sur l’origine et la nature des Mystères d’Éleusis,’ and ‘Les Grands Mystères d’Éleusis, Personnel, Cérémonies.’