Dipolieia
Dipolieia ( Greek Διπολεῖα , sometimes also Διιπόλια , Diipolia or Διπόλια , Dipolia ) was a celebration in ancient Greece in honor of Zeus Polieus , which took place in Athens on the 14th day of the month of Skirophorion (June-July).
The highlight and perhaps the only ceremony of the solemnity was the Buphonia sacrifice, in which a bull was sacrificed and the sacrificial knife was then ritually condemned. The festival was named after the mythological Zeus priest Diomos , to whom the first bull sacrifice was ascribed. From the Hellenism onwards the festival was not used.
literature
- Edmond Pottier : Dipoleia. In: Charles Victor Daremberg , Edmond Saglio : Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines . Volume 2.1. Hachette, Paris 1892, pp. 269–271 ( digitized version ) (French)
- Wilhelm Vollmer, Complete Dictionary of the Mythology of All Nations , p.615
Individual evidence
- ↑ Porphyrion de abstinentia 2, 10.