CHALCIOI´CIA
CHALCIOI´CIA (
χαλκιοίκια), an annual festival, with sacrifices, celebrated at
Sparta, in honour of Athena, surnamed
Χαλκίοικος, i.e. the goddess of the brazen-house. (
Paus. 3.17.3,
10.5.5; and Goeller
ad
Thuc. 1.128, &c.) Young men marched on
the occasion in full armour to the temple of the goddess; and the ephors,
though not entering the temple, but remaining within its sacred precincts,
took part in the sacrifice. (
Plb. 4.35.2.)
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