Lenaea
Americannoun
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What reason could be found for this naming, unless that the Lenaea had first been transferred to the Anthesteria, as all the testimony tends to prove?
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
The most weighty testimony for making the Lenaea an independent festival, even in historic times, is given by Proclus in a scholium to Hesiod.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
The αγων επι Ληναίω could hardly be separated from the Dionysia επι Ληναίω Therefore the hide-money inscriptions are also authority that Lenaea and Anthesteria are but two references to the same festival.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
A tradition running with such persistency through so many authors affords a strong Page 69 presumption that there once existed an Attic month Lenaeo, and that the Lenaea were celebrated in that month.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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
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