and Herakles. Other Athenian festivals were based around family, citizenship, sacrifice, and women. There were at least 120 festival days each year. The...

practised in that month. Many Athenian festivals had links with different stages of the agricultural cycle, such as festivals of planting or harvest. It...

North America. Athenian festivals, for a list of festivals celebrated in ancient Greece. Greece portal http://www.yasas.com/greek/festivals/usa/ Wikimedia...

was organised and celebrated by women. It was one of a number of Athenian festivals which were celebrated solely by women and addressed sexual or reproductive...

their festivals on different days, it was possible for spectators to visit more than one festival per season. It was also an opportunity for Athenian citizens...

Herakleia en Kynosargei) were ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles. The ancient Athenians celebrated the festival, which commemorated the death...

wreaths, and ribbons. The Athenian calendar boasted several religious festivals that were held in the Athenian agora. These festivals were significant as they...

public-feasting in Athens. Athenian festivals were seen to be done in benefit to the state. The Attic calendar was one marked by frequent festivals to the gods which...

(Ancient Greek: Λήναια) was an annual Athenian festival with a dramatic competition. It was one of the lesser festivals of Athens and Ionia in ancient Greece...

(/ˌænθɪˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεστήρια [antʰestέːri.a]) was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus. It was held each year from the 11th to the 13th...

World's Largest Toga Party" was the tagline of WrestleMania IX. Athenian festivals Roman festivals "FDR Birthday". FDR Presidential Library and Museum. Mount...

persons training for public contests, conducting the games at the great Athenian festivals, exercising general supervision over competitor morale, and decorating...

The Kronia (Ancient Greek: Κρόνια) was an Athenian festival held in honor of Kronos (Cronus) on the 12th day of Hekatombaion, the first month of the Attic...

military campaign. Athenian festivals in honor of Artemis included Elaphebolia, Mounikhia, Kharisteria, and Brauronia. The festival of Artemis Orthia was...

Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, and an Athenian festival called the Pandia (probably held for Zeus) was perhaps celebrated...

Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding...

Thargelia /θɑːrˈdʒiːliə/ (Ancient Greek: Θαργήλια) was one of the chief Athenian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays...

or defendants. The ephebi took part in some of the most important Athenian festivals. Thus during the Eleusinian Mysteries they were sent to fetch the...

The Bendidia was an ancient Athenian festival celebrating the Thracian goddess Bendis. It was celebrated on the 19th day of the month of Thargelion (late...

chorus proved victorious in competition. The prizes for drama at the Athenian festival competitions were awarded jointly to the playwright and the choregos...

civic life in which Athenian women were most free to participate was the religious and ritual sphere. Along with important festivals reserved solely for...

that the festival took place on the fourth day of Hekatombaion (mid July-mid August), near the beginning of the Attic new year. Athenian festivals Wikipedia...

of ancient Greek drama, in which tetralogies were a component of Athenian festivals, and which he had amply discussed in his essay "Oper und Drama". The...

Peloponnesus. The Athenians suffer a severe defeat in Egypt at the hands of the Persians. After being cut off in the Nile Delta, the Athenian fleet is defeated...

Descriptio by Pausanias, say he was trampled to death by a mad bull. Athenian festivals A Brief History of the Olympic Games by David C. Young, Wiley-Blackwell...

vengeance upon the Athenians!" Herodotus further writes that Darius charged one of his servants to say "Master, remember the Athenians" three times before...

main purpose of the festival was for Athenians and non-Athenians to celebrate the goddess Athena. Every four years, the festival was celebrated in a larger...

this festival may have had with the Pandia of Athens is unknown. Athenian festivals Demosthenes, Against Midias 21.8–9; Inscriptiones Graecae, II2 1140...

played a role in the Athenian festival of the Great Panathenaea. Nine months before the festival, at the arts and crafts festival titled Chalkeia, a special...

Heinemann, Ltd. 1934. Internet Archive Simon, Erika, "Theseus and Athenian Festivals" in Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon, edited by Jenifer...