Gynaikeia

Gynaikeia ( Greek  Γυναικεία from γυναικεῖος “concerning women”) is the Greek equivalent of Bona Dea from Roman mythology . No further information is known about this deity, as her rites were secret and her worship was limited to gynaiconitis , her name was not allowed to be pronounced outside and no man was allowed to see her.

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• Macrobius Convivia primi diei Saturnaliorum 1,12,27
• Plutarch Caesar 9.2; Cicero 19.4

literature

• Hermann Steuding : Gynaikeia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 1778 ( digitized version ).