Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Parasanga, Parthenium

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Parthenium

（Παρθένιον).

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A town in Mysia, south of Pergamum.

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A promontory in the Chersonesus Taurica, on which stood a temple of the Tauric Artemis, from whom it derived its name. It was in this temple that human sacrifices were offered to the goddess. See Tauri.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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