Genesion (month)

Genesion ( ancient Greek Γενεσιών ) is a month of the calendar of Magnesia on the meander .

Little is known about the month, neither its position in the year nor the months before or after it are known. The inscribed source from magnesia and the fact that the month is only recorded for a single calendar of the Ionian calendar group do not allow any indexing either. The name is traced back to the festival of Genesia , celebrated this month , known from Athens as the festival of the dead. A mention of the festival by Herodotus and the naming of several months of different Greek calendars after the festival - in addition to the Genesion of the Magnesian, the Genesios of the Arcadian and the Genetios of the Malian calendar - an all-Greek festival is assumed.

literature

Ernst Bischoff : Genesion 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 1131 f. ( Digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Otto Kern : The inscriptions of Magnesia on the Maeander . W. Spemann, Berlin 1900, pp. 104-106 ( digitized version ).
^ Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 110f.
↑ Herodotus, Histories 4, 26.

[1] Otto Kern : The inscriptions of Magnesia on the Maeander . W. Spemann, Berlin 1900, pp. 104-106 ( digitized version ).

[2] Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 110f.

[3] Herodotus, Histories 4, 26.