Panathenaea

American  

[pan-ath-uh-nee-uh] / ˌpæn æθ əˈni ə /

Also Panathenaia

noun

1. a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.

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Panathenaea British  

/ pæˌnæθɪˈniːə /

noun

1. (in ancient Athens) a summer festival on the traditional birthday of Athena

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Example Sentences

You must ride at the Panathenaea on a horse fit for the great king: four acres of my best vines went for that folly.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

So he gave the promise, but deferred its fulfilment, saying that he would send the prisoners home in time for the Panathenaea.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

I almost died of laughter at the last Panathenaea at seeing a slow, fat, pale-faced fellow, who ran well behind all the rest, bent completely double and evidently in horrible pain.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

At any rate, we know that in the 6th century B.C. a recitation of the poems of Homer was one of the established competitions at the Panathenaea, held once in four years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

At Olympia a wreath of wild olive, at the Isthmus one of pine, at Nemea of parsley, at Pytho some of the God's sacred apples, and at our Panathenaea oil pressed from the temple olives.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)