Galaxion (month)

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Galaxion ( ancient Greek Γαλαξιών ) was one of the months in at least two ancient Greek calendars based on the Ionic calendar .

The month is attested by inscriptions for the calendars of Delos and Thasos . On Delos it stood between the Hieros and the Artemision , on Thasos the Galaxion followed the Anthesterion and also stood in front of the Artemision. In the Attic calendar , the reference calendar for Ionic local calendars, it is equated with the Elaphebolion , which in the Julian calendar roughly corresponds to March .

The name is based on the festival Galaxia , which was celebrated in honor of the mother of the gods Cybele . The festival, in which the cooking of porridge played an essential role ( γαλαξία was the name of a porridge made from barley flour and milk, which was prepared for this festival), is only attested for Athens , but because of the name of the month it is also assumed for other Pole Ionia . The month in which it was celebrated in Athens is not recorded; however, due to the parallelization of the Galaxion with the Attic Elaphebolion, it is located in this month. The month's name may also derive from an unknown festival of the god Apollo , who was worshiped in Boeotia with the epiclesis Galaxios and had a sanctuary called Galaxion there.

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  1. ↑ Bulletin de correspondance hellénique , Volume 29, 1909, p. 489 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ IG XII, Supplementum 365, 23.
  3. ^ Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , pp. 64 & 71.
  4. ↑ Cf. Catherine Trümpy: Investigations into the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , pp. 63 & 70.
  5. ↑ See Ludwig Deubner : Attische Feste . Keller, Berlin 1932, p. 216
  6. ↑ Ernst Bischoff : Galaxion 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 571.