Alalkomenios

Alalkomenios ( ancient Greek Ἀλαλκομένιος ) is a month of the Boeotian calendar .

It was the twelfth month after Damatrios and before Bukatios , in the Julian calendar it roughly corresponds to the month of November . The Boeotic year ended with him, and the month also served as a leap month . The name is traced back to the festival in honor of Athena Alalkomeneis , which took place this month in a shrine in Alalkomenai . The sanctuary was believed to be the birthplace of Athena. The month at Plutarch is documented in literature ; it is known in inscriptions from Orchomenus , Chaironeia and Tanagra .

literature

Wilhelm Kubitschek : Alalkomenios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1277.

Remarks

^ Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 245.
↑ Plutarch, Aristeides 21

[1] Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 245.

[2] Plutarch, Aristeides 21