Cidaria

A surname of the Eleusinian Demeter at Pheneus, in Arcadia, derived either from an Arcadian dance called κίδαρις (kidaris), or from a royal head-dress of the same name.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 15.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.