Olympianismos
Welcome to Olympianismos!

Join the forum, it's quick and easy

Olympianismos
Welcome to Olympianismos!
Olympianismos
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

Trouble With Panathenaea

2 posters

Go down

Trouble With Panathenaea Empty Trouble With Panathenaea

Post  SpiritofApollo Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:57 pm

Okay, this has been making me wonder for the past three years. How come the Panathenaea ends at the beginning of the next Athenian Month? Why doesn't it end at the end of the month that it started at? Could someone please answer this for me, it's been driving me nuts.
SpiritofApollo
SpiritofApollo
Junior Member
Junior Member

Posts : 38
Join date : 2013-04-11
Age : 44

Back to top Go down

Trouble With Panathenaea Empty Re: Trouble With Panathenaea

Post  Erodius Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:03 pm

Hmm — I'm not sure what you're talking about.

The Panathenaea festival was typically seven days long (remember the significance of '7' in my other post?), and ran from the 23rd through the end of the Attic month of Ekatombaiōn, which was either 29 or 30 days long depending on the year. 

This certainly may make it cross over month divisions in the Gregorian calendar, but the people of Attica did not use the Gregorian calendar in the Classical period. Wink
Erodius
Erodius
Moderator
Moderator

Posts : 931
Join date : 2013-03-20
Age : 33

http://eusebeis.wordpress.com

Back to top Go down

Trouble With Panathenaea Empty Re: Trouble With Panathenaea

Post  SpiritofApollo Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:15 pm

Erodius wrote:Hmm — I'm not sure what you're talking about.

The Panathenaea festival was typically seven days long (remember the significance of '7' in my other post?), and ran from the 23rd through the end of the Attic month of Ekatombaiōn, which was either 29 or 30 days long depending on the year. 

This certainly may make it cross over month divisions in the Gregorian calendar, but the people of Attica did not use the Gregorian calendar in the Classical period. Wink

I was basing it on the Attica calender, not the Gregorian one. At the end of the next month's calendar, it crosses over into the next one, ending during the New Moon Festival.
SpiritofApollo
SpiritofApollo
Junior Member
Junior Member

Posts : 38
Join date : 2013-04-11
Age : 44

Back to top Go down

Trouble With Panathenaea Empty Re: Trouble With Panathenaea

Post  Erodius Wed Jun 26, 2013 12:20 am

 it crosses over into the next one, ending during the New Moon Festival.

No, it doesn't. The Panathenaea would run from sunset on July 31st until sunset on August 7th. The subsequent month, Metageitniōn, begins at the Neomenia, which would be sunset on the 7th of August. The Panathenaic festival would end precisely when the Neomenia begins.
Erodius
Erodius
Moderator
Moderator

Posts : 931
Join date : 2013-03-20
Age : 33

http://eusebeis.wordpress.com

Back to top Go down

Trouble With Panathenaea Empty Re: Trouble With Panathenaea

Post  Sponsored content


Sponsored content


Back to top Go down

Back to top

- Similar topics

 
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum