ritual

Panathenaea

Rituals

A named Athenian festival of Athena with procession, peplos, and games. Not the Olympics alone, not Dionysia, and not a bare parade dump.

Also known as Panathenaia · Panathenaic festival

Hellenic religion

  • Panathenaea appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names the Panathenaea among Athenian peplos, procession, and contest speech on the Acropolis road. A named Panathenaea in that periegesis, not every festival dump and not the peplos cloth already walked alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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