Panathenaea

American  

[pan-ath-uh-nee-uh] / ˌpæn æθ əˈni ə /

Also Panathenaia

noun

1. 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.

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Panathenaea British  

/ pæˌnæθɪˈniːə /

noun

1. (in ancient Athens) a summer festival on the traditional birthday of Athena

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Example Sentences

The orators Lycurgus and Isocrates make a great deal of the recitation of Homer at the Panathenaea, but know nothing of the poems having been collected and arranged at Athens, a fact which would have redounded still more to the honour of the city.

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At any rate, we know that in the 6th century B.C. a recitation of the poems of Homer was one of the established competitions at the Panathenaea, held once in four years.

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Another festival, the Panathenaea, which had been instituted only a few years before his rise to power, became under his rule, and thanks to his policy, the chief national festival of the Athenian state.

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Here he established the worship of Athena, instituted the Panathenaea, and built an Erechtheum.

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The most celebrated festival of the city-goddess was the Panathenaea at Athens and other places.

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