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1 The Acropolis and its immediate surroundings in the second century AD.

1 The Acropolis and its immediate surroundings in the second century AD.

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A brief reexamination of the Athenian ritual of arrephoria and of Erichthonius' etiological narrative of the failed kourotrophy of the daughters of Cecrops leads to an exploration of the symbolic fonctions of a devotional geography containing elements of plant life and to a clarification of the complex semantic relationships which link worship sett...

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