Essays on the Greek Romances

part in the other romances. In the _Ephesiaca_, Hippothoos and his

bandits at the festival of Ares had the custom of suspending the victim to be sacrificed, human being or animal, from a tree and killing it by hurling their javelins at it. They were preparing to sacrifice Anthia in this way when she was rescued.[81]

The other cult which is as important as that of Artemis for t...