You are hereHomeBARNovember/December 2017Roman Cult, Jewish Rebels Share Jerusalem Cave Site Most of the information we have about the Thesmophoria, which was still celebrated in the second half of the second century C.E., comes from a scholion on Dialogues of the Courtesans by Lucian of Samosata (Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans II.1). Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.