Excerpt from Ancient GREEK Holidays

Charisteria for Artemis Agrotera

When the young Goddess Artemis left Delos, the island of her birth, she came to Attica and there she learned to hunt. To honor Artemis Agrotera—Artemis the Huntress—the Athenians built a temple to her outside the walls of Athens. There she was worshipped alongside Enyalios, a name of Ares. The war God had very little cult of his own, and this is one of few sites where he was venerated and received sacrifice.

This temple became the site of a votive offering so massive that it had to be spread over many years. The basic relationship between humans and Gods in Greece is one of exchange—a gift for a gift. In times of need, a person or a state could ask a God for help and vow a specific sacrifice in return once the help was delivered. When the situation was adequately resolved, this sort of vow was not one to be broken, and votive offerings of many kinds are some of the most common objects found in temples. These can be objects as well as sacrifices, for example, a soldier aided in battle might give some of his armor as a votive offering.

This is an excerpt from Ancient GREEK Holidays published in 2024.
This must have treasure can be found on here