The Anthesteria (/ˌænθɪˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεστήρια [antʰestέːri.a]) was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus. It was held...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...
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ever since and started the feast of All Saints' Day. All Saints' Day Anthesteria Dziady Feralia Halloween Parentalia Radonitsa Setsubun, a similar Japanese...
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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...
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On the third day of the Anthesteria festival in Athens, during late February and early March, in honor of Dionysus, the Hydrophoria (Ancient Greek: Υδροφόρια)...
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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...
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the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bacchanalia". Anthesteria Ganachakra Maenads, female worshippers of Dionysus Saturnalia, a Roman...
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which was the performance and judging of tragedies and comedies The Anthesteria, held annually for three days in the month of Anthesterion, concentrated...
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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...
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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...
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linked the pithos with the Pithoigia aspect of the Athenian festival of Anthesteria. Cf. Verdenius, p. 64. Cf. Harrison, Jane Ellen, Prolegomena to the Study...
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a version of the Attic calendar to calculate it. Athenian festivals Anthesteria Bacchanalia Ganachakra Lenaia Panathenaia Wells, John C. (2000) [1990]...
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souls, Zeus chooses Hector to be killed. During the festival known as Anthesteria, the Keres were driven away. Their Roman equivalents were Letum (“death”)...
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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...
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representation of the rupent rite performed on the first day of the Anthesteria. It is more general in content; it is in fact simply a representation...
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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...
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