Orgiastic Dancing in Progress: A Spartan Women Miscellany

Castor and Pollux were reputed to have taught the Spartans a special dance that the maidens performed annually.

Girls and women also performed lewd dances in honor of Artemis, celebrating her as a fertility goddess.

It does, however, appear to show men and women dancing and having intercourse in the presence of a hairy, ithyphallic, satyr-like figure.

Like the Pythia, she transmitted superhuman directives.

– from Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy

And that young woman, whose tunic is still unbelted around her thigh, revealingly.

– Sophocles