 In other places the festival lasted for longer – in Syracuse, Sicily, the Thesmophoria was a ten-day long event.The main source about the rituals of the Thesmophoria comes from a scholion on Lucian's "Dialogues of the Courtesans".A second major source is Aristophanes' play "Thesmophoriazusae"; however, Aristophanes' portrayal of the festival mixes authentically Thesmophoric elements with elements from other Greek religious practice, especially the worship of Dionysus.