This same oriental worship had also been in other places adopted by the Greeks of Asia Minor. Among these are _Leucophryne_, who was worshipped in Phrygia, near a warm spring,(1633) and thence particularly honoured along the banks of the Mæander in Magnesia; and therefore also by Themistocles.(1634) She was represented in the same form as the Ephesian goddess.(1635) Her sacred animal was the buffalo.(1636) The Artemis of _Sipylus_ was worshipped with wanton games, from which she was also called at Olympia (according to Pausanias) Cordaca.(1637) The _Pergæan_ Artemis known all over Greece by her itinerant priests,(1638) and of the same form as the Artemis Leucophryne;(1639) with many others.(1640) It was in the true spirit of this worship that the musician Timotheus called Artemis “the raging and foaming, like a Bacchanalian;”(1641) and the tragic poet Diogenes in a beautiful though not a very accurate passage of his Semele speaks of the Lydian and Bactrian virgins, who with soft strains worshipped the Tmolian Artemis on the banks of the Halys.(1642)
I have now endeavoured to give the reader a general view of the different branches and forms of the worship of Artemis; in which some difficult and doubtful questions have of necessity been passed over: but I have preferred rather to reckon on the acquiescence of the reader in some uncertain propositions than to weary his patience by a detailed examination of all the debatable points.
§ 1. On the worship of deities other than Apollo and Artemis in Doric states. Worship of Zeus and Here. § 2. Of Athene. § 3 and 4. Of Demeter. § 5. Of Poseidon. § 6. Of Dionysus. § 7. Of Aphrodite, Hermes, Hephæstus, Ares, and Æsculapius. § 8. Of the Charites, Eros, and the Dioscuri. § 9. General character of the Doric religion.
1. Having considered the worship of those deities which either wholly or partially owed their origin to the Dorians, we must now, in order to complete our account of the religion of that race, point out the various worships which they adopted from other nations.
This inquiry will be of value in two other respects than the plain and immediate result to which it leads; viz., from the light it throws on the history of the Doric colonies, and likewise on the Doric character upon which the mode of worship had a most powerful influence.