Anthesteria
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Of the festivals in the city, the Anthesteria, or Feast of Flowers, was of most interest to the fair sex.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
But was the Anthesteria a state festival, at which public sacrifices of cattle were made?
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
P. 55, 11. 949-960, Mine evil days are made a rite among them.—At the Feast of the Anthesteria, each family summoned its ghosts from the grave and after the feast sent them back again.
From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Murray, Gilbert
In the old Athenian Anthesteria the blood of victims was poured over the unclean.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The third feast, the Anthesteria, belongs in classical times to the Olympian Dionysus, and is said to be the oldest of his feasts.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert
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