Shrine of the Fates

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Dates

unspecified (mentioned in the 2nd century CE)

Garden Description

In the narrow road to Titane near Corinth was a grove of holm oaks and a shrine of the Fates which Pausanias visited in the 2nd century A.D. (2.11.4). According to Pausanias, the grove was said to be particularly old. Part of the religious ritual at the site was the annual sacrifice of pregnant ewes on the open-air altar and the offering of a libation made of a mixture of milk, honey and flowers.

Keywords

literary gardens
altars (religious fixtures)AAT:300003725
holm oaks (Quercus ilex)
Pausanias
sacred groves AAT:300251876

Places

Titane Pleiades: 570741

Gardens of the Roman Empire

Shrine of the Fates

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Garden Description

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