Panathenaea
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.
- Also Pan·ath·e·nai·a [pan-ath-uh-ney-uh]. /ˌpæn æθ əˈneɪ ə/.
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How to use Panathenaea in a sentence
Here he established the worship of Athena, instituted the Panathenaea, and built an Erechtheum.
The Panathenaea, at which the new robes for the image of he goddess were carried through the city, spread like a sail on a mast.
The most celebrated festival of the city-goddess was the Panathenaea at Athens and other places.
Mr. Verrall supposes the "Cyclic" poems, as well as our Homer, to have been recited at the Panathenaea.
The World of Homer | Andrew LangIt deals merely with the legalised recitation of Homeric poetry, and of that poetry alone, at the Panathenaea.
The World of Homer | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for Panathenaea
/ (pæˌnæθɪˈniːə) /
(in ancient Athens) a summer festival on the traditional birthday of Athena
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