Located on the coast of the Aegean Sea, Brauron was first settled around 3500 B.C. The settlement had varied populations and levels of commerce until the eighth century B.C., when Theseus unified the 12 settlements of Attica into the city of Athens. The former town came to be better known as a religious site, most strongly associated with a cult dedicated to the goddess Artemis. Artemis was associated with many things: the hunt, the moon, the wilderness, chastity. But at Brauron, Artemis was worshipped primarily by women in connection with fertility…
