Erotidia
Erotidia ( ancient Greek Ἐρωτίδια ) were ancient Greek festivals that were celebrated in Thespiai in honor of the god Eros .
The Erotidia were penteterisch, four annually discharged Agone where Pausanias According addition to musical Agonen also gymnastic Agone were held. Winners lists from the 2nd century are inscribed, in which winners of gymnastic and hipster agons are listed. Otherwise no details are known about the public festival. Plutarch tells of a private sacrifice that the father of the speaker of Amatorius wants to make to Eros to settle a dispute between the in-laws.
The mythographer Konon aitiologically traces the festival back to a version of the Narkissos myth .
literature
- Martin Persson Nilsson : Greek festivals of religious importance excluding the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906, p. 423f. ( Digitized version )
- Paul Stengel : Erotidia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 548 ( digitized version ).
