Bakchion
Bakchion ( ancient Greek Βακχιών ) was a month in at least two ancient Greek calendars , which are based on the Ionic calendar .
The month is attested by inscriptions for the calendars of Mykonos and Keos . On Mykonos it probably followed the Lenaion , the names of the months before and after Bakchios on Keos are unknown. In the Attic calendar , the reference calendar for Ionic local calendars, it is equated with the Anthesterion , which in the Julian calendar roughly corresponds to February .
The name of the month is traced back to a festival that was celebrated in honor of Dionysus Bakchos . The equation of the Bakchion with the Attic Anthesterion was based on the consideration that Dionysus festivals in ancient Greece were always celebrated in winter and that with the Anthesterion a month used in many Greek calendars is known, which was named after the Dionysus festival Anthesteria .
literature
- Wilhelm Dittenberger : Bakchion . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement I, Stuttgart 1903, col. 238.
Remarks
- ^ Franciszek Sokolowski : Lois sacrées des cités grecques . École française d'Athènes, Paris 1969, No. 96 (= Sylloge inscriptionum graecarum , 3rd edition, No. 1024).
- ↑ IG XII 5, 568 ; Inscription from Poiessa
- ^ Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , pp. 60 & 65.
- ↑ Cf. Catherine Trümpy: Investigations into the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 57.