Apaturion

Apaturion ( ancient Greek Ἀπατουριών ) was a month in several ancient Greek calendars based on the Ionic calendar .

The month is attested in inscriptions for the calendars of Tenos , Delos and Priene , as well as in Iasos , Olbia , Kyzikos and Samos .

On Delos he stood between the Buphonion and the Posideon , on Tenos the Apaturion followed the Buphonion and possibly stood before the Aresion . Since there are two months between Buphonion and Aresion, one of which is not known, it remains unclear exactly where it is. In Priene it lies between the Pyanopsion and the Poseideon. In the Attic calendar , the reference calendar for Ionic local calendars, it is therefore equated with the Maimacterion or the Pyanopsion, which in the Julian calendar roughly correspond to the months of October and November .

The name of the month is traced back to the all-ionic initiation festival Apaturia , which was celebrated in Athens for several days in the month of Pyanopsion.

literature

• Wilhelm Kubitschek : Apaturion . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2680.

Remarks

1. ^ Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 63f.
2. ^ Catherine Trümpy: Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 94.
3. ↑ Johannes Toepffer : Apaturia 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2672-2680.