Religion in ancient Sparta

mythological prince, loved by Apollo

mythical son of Aetolus

sanctuary at Sparta

ancient Greek sculptor and architect

thumb | right | The Erechtheion in Athens, Greece. In ancient Greek religion, Artemis Caryatis (Καρυᾶτις) was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Caryae in Laconia. There, an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatides, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum. The late accounts made of the eponymous Carya a virgin who had been transformed into a nut-tree, whether for her unchastity (with Dionysus) or to prevent her rape. The particu

Agrotera (, "the huntress") was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, the most important goddess to Attic hunters.