Chalcioicia
χαλκιοίκια
Chalcioicia (χαλκιοίκια), an annual festival, with sacrifices, celebrated at Sparta, in honour of Athena, surnamed Χαλκίοικος, i.e. the goddess of the brazen-house. (Paus. 3.17.3, 10.5.5; and Goeller ad Thuc. 1.128, &c.) Young men marched on the occasion in full armour to the temple of the goddess; and the ephors, though not entering the temple, but remaining within its sacred precincts, took part in the sacrifice. (Plb. 4.35.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.