DRAFT
Shrine of the Fates
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 grovesAAT:300251876