ABSTRACT
The Athenian Xenophon founded a cult to Artemis of Ephesus at Scillus in the Peloponnese in the early fourth century. Unlike the other founders of cults examined here, Xenophon tells us of his cult in an autobiographical excursus in his Anabasis; he also reveals his attitudes about religion in his other writings. He thus provides more information than the sources on the other cults, but information that must be understood in its literary as well as historical context.
