Anthesteria
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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
We read of them in connexion with the Athenian festival of the Anthesteria, and that of the gardens of Adonis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
It is interesting in connection with Thucydides' statement that the Ionian Athenians in his day still held the Anthesteria, to examine the record of this festival in the Ionic cities of Asia Minor.
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
If the passage is worth anything, it adds new testimony that there were dramatic representations at the Anthesteria.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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