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Why is it that at the Thesmophoria the Eretrian
women cook their meat, not by fire, but by the
rays of the sun ; and why do they not call upon
Calligeneia?1
Is it because it happened that the captive women
whom Agamemnon was bringing home from Troy
were celebrating the Thesmophoria at this place,
but when conditions for sailing suddenly appeared
favourable, they put out to sea leaving behind them
the sacrifice uncompleted?
1 The name of the third and last day of this festival at Athens; probably also a cult title applied to some goddess, perhaps to Demeter.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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