The Tauropolia was a festival celebrating Artemis in her aspect as Tauropolos (bull goddess), particularly at Brauron and Halae Araphenides. The festival possibly commemorated Iphigenia's rescue from Tauris and involved bull sacrifices, though details remain debated. Processions and maiden choruses characterized the celebration. In poetry, Tauropolia evokes Artemis's fierce aspects, human sacrifice themes, and exotic cult origins, appearing in works exploring the Iphigenia legend, Artemis's Tauric connections, bull symbolism, and the Greek practice of incorporating foreign cult epithets that suggested the goddess's travels and transformations across Mediterranean religious landscapes.

Tauropolia honored Artemis Tauropolos with bull sacrifices or rituals involving bovine imagery. The festival's name, meaning "bull-working," suggests either sacrifice or ritual bull-handling connected to Artemis worship. Understanding Tauropolia helps contextualize Artemis's diverse epithets and regional cult variations. The bull association seems paradoxical for a virgin goddess but may connect to Artemis's liminal nature, mediating between wild and domestic, virgin and maternal aspects of feminine divine power.