Brauron is celebrated on account of the worship of Artemis Brauronia, in whose honor a festival was celebrated in this place. Artemis is said to have presided over all the biological transitions of females from before puberty to the first childbirth, Even before menarche young girls danced for Artemis, in some places playing the role of animals. At the Attic site, or Brauron, in the rite called arkteia, girls representing the polis of Athens imitated she-bears, arktoi."[2] "The initiation ritual for girls was called the Brauronia,The great temple was built by Croesus, king of Lydia, about 550 bce and was rebuilt after being burned by a madman named Herostratus in 356 bce.