Lenaea

American  

[luh-nee-uh] / ləˈni ə /

Also Lenaia

noun

(sometimes used with a plural verb)

1. a festival in ancient Athens in honor of Dionysus, celebrated at the beginning of February and comprising a public banquet followed by the performance of comedies.

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Example Sentences

The omission of Gamelio by Hesychius, by referring the εν αυτω back to Lenaeo, makes him authority that the Lenaea were held in that month.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

The scholiast to Aristophanes says 156 that the Chytri were a festival of Dionysus Lenaeus; so the Chytri as well as the Lenaea must have been celebrated in the Lenaeum.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

Hoc tumulata jacet proles Lenaea sepulchro, Immortale genus, nee peritura jacet; Quin oritura iterum, matris concreditur alvo: Bis natum referunt te quoque, Bacche Pater.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

He goes on to state that the month is so called from the Lenaea, or from the Ambrosia.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

The dispute over the number of Dionysiac festivals in the Attic calendar, more particularly with regard to the date of the so-called Lenaea, is one of long duration.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various