The Anthesteria (/ˌænθɪˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεστήρια [antʰestέːri.a]) was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus. It was held...
11 KB (1,172 words) - 22:14, 2 October 2024
festivals of Theoinia and Iobaccheia that took place during the month of Anthesteria, among other duties. Fourteen in all, they were either sworn in by the...
2 KB (176 words) - 13:47, 30 January 2022
Dionysus (section Anthesteria)
and prizes for both dramatists and actors in multiple categories. The Anthesteria (Ἀνθεστήρια) was an Athenian festival that celebrated the beginning of...
214 KB (24,862 words) - 00:42, 5 October 2024
favor of innate grammar The Pots (Χύτροι, Khýtroi), the last day of the Anthesteria festival in ancient Athens All pages with titles beginning with POTS...
654 bytes (128 words) - 09:36, 4 August 2023
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
221 KB (25,339 words) - 19:08, 3 October 2024
the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bacchanalia". Anthesteria Ganachakra Maenads, female worshippers of Dionysus Saturnalia, a Roman...
17 KB (2,135 words) - 23:53, 24 July 2024
example surviving in classical Greece is the hieros gamos enacted at the Anthesteria by the wife of the Archon basileus, the "Archon King" in Athens, originally...
8 KB (924 words) - 16:32, 14 August 2024
part in a sacred ritual marriage to the god Dionysus as part of the Anthesteria. This ceremony seems to have taken place at the Boukoleion, near the...
3 KB (406 words) - 12:40, 10 August 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
30 KB (3,157 words) - 01:24, 7 September 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
124 KB (13,036 words) - 15:26, 22 September 2024
which was the performance and judging of tragedies and comedies The Anthesteria, held annually for three days in the month of Anthesterion, concentrated...
662 bytes (124 words) - 09:12, 19 January 2022
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
86 KB (10,440 words) - 02:13, 30 September 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
147 KB (14,141 words) - 11:08, 3 October 2024
Basilinna or Basilissa, the ritual queen who was wed to Dionysus during the Anthesteria in ancient Athens Basilissa (gastropod), a genus in the family Seguenziidae...
544 bytes (87 words) - 12:09, 5 March 2023
Festivals / feasts Actia Adonia Agrionia Amphidromia Anthesteria Apellai Apaturia Aphrodisia Arrhephoria Ascolia Bendidia Boedromia Brauronia Buphonia...
24 KB (2,905 words) - 06:44, 10 September 2024
breath. Another account suggests he choked while eating grapes at the Anthesteria festival in Athens. A third holds that he died of happiness after winning...
31 KB (3,741 words) - 23:05, 3 October 2024
rites and homicide cases. His wife had to ritually marry Dionysus at the Anthesteria festival. Philippides of Paiania was one of the richest Athenians during...
37 KB (4,167 words) - 23:38, 11 September 2024
souls, Zeus chooses Hector to be killed. During the festival known as Anthesteria, the Keres were driven away. Their Roman equivalents were Letum (“death”)...
10 KB (1,256 words) - 15:51, 24 August 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
25 KB (2,940 words) - 04:02, 14 September 2024
Cosmetic Co. is named after them. Ancient Greece portal Myths portal Anthesteria Cult of Dionysus Gerarai Minyades Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary...
40 KB (4,941 words) - 18:07, 22 August 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
147 KB (15,511 words) - 13:55, 11 September 2024
Archaeological Museum of Delos, detail van Hoorn, G. (November 1954). "Choes and Anthesteria". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 74. doi:10.2307/627643. JSTOR 627643...
20 KB (2,304 words) - 04:01, 9 May 2024
another name for the Maenads, the female worshippers of Dionysus. The Anthesteria, one of the four Athenian festivals in honour of Dionysus (collectively...
21 KB (2,972 words) - 03:21, 25 September 2024
cooked seeds and nuts were offered during the pagan festival of the Anthesteria. In the 5th century AD koliva in the sense of boiled wheat, constituted...
13 KB (1,314 words) - 14:58, 7 August 2024
a version of the Attic calendar to calculate it. Athenian festivals Anthesteria Bacchanalia Ganachakra Lenaia Panathenaia Wells, John C. (2000) [1990]...
21 KB (2,500 words) - 18:54, 2 October 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
28 KB (3,219 words) - 21:41, 18 August 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
203 KB (17,341 words) - 14:09, 30 September 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
25 KB (3,359 words) - 03:57, 7 September 2024
Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
105 KB (11,492 words) - 14:17, 30 September 2024
and must differentiate between Minoan and Mycenean religion. In the Anthesteria Dionysos is the "divine child". There is evidence of a cult in Eleusis...
102 KB (10,936 words) - 20:24, 29 September 2024