• Heraea (redirect from Heraia)
    Heraea or Heraia can refer to: Heraea, an obsolete name of the genus Saturnia Heraea (Arcadia), an ancient Greek city in the Peloponnese Heraean Games...
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  • Heraea or Heraia (Ancient Greek: Ἡραία) was the most important town of ancient Arcadia on the Lower Alpheius. It was situated near the frontiers of Elis...
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    city-states of Argos and Mycenae, where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated. "The three cities I love best," she declares in the Iliad...
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    2019-12-29. Retrieved 2019-09-22. Judith Swaddling (2011-02-17), "Women at the Heraia" (Multi-media gallery), Ancient Greek Olympics Gallery (History), retrieved...
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    Paloumpa. The municipality is named after the ancient Arcadian city of Heraia. The region was known in recent times for the construction workers (mastori)...
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    Museum - figure". Serwint, Nancy (1993). "The Female Athletic Costume at the Heraia and Prenuptial Initiation Rites". American Journal of Archaeology. 97 (3):...
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  • also thought to have medicinal powers. Aelian mentions that the wine from Heraia in Arcadia rendered men foolish but women fertile; conversely, Achaean wine...
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    Astros, Athinaio, Daseae, Falaisia (Phalesia), Gortys, Hypsus (Stemnitsa), Heraia, Lusi, Lykaio, Lycosura, Mantineia, Megalopolis, Orchomenus (Orchomenos)...
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    Menandros Thessaly Eusebius 65 § 520 BC Hoplitodromos Damaretos (or Demaretos) Heraia Eusebius 65 § 520 BC Stadion Anochos Taranto Eusebius 65 § 520 BC Boxing...
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  • Panamareia and Komyria) and Hera (the Heraia). These festivals alternated annually and were heavily gendered. During the Heraia, women of Stratonicea went into...
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