Hagneion (month)

Hagneion ( ancient Greek Ἁγνηιών ) was a month in at least two ancient Greek calendars based on the Ionic calendar .

The month is attested by inscriptions on the meander for the calendars of Ephesus and Magnesia . In Magnesia on the Meander he stood before the month Kronion in Ephesus between the Badromion and Maimakter . In the Attic calendar , the reference calendar for Ionic local calendars, it can be equated with the pyanopsion , which in the Julian calendar roughly corresponds to August . The month was probably taken from the calendar of Malis , where it is attested in the form Hagnaios for the calendars of the cities of Thebes and Halos . Since several month names atypical for the Ionian calendar are known from Magnesia, the Hagneion was probably first introduced there and then taken over into the local calendar by the nearby Ephesus.

The name of the month probably goes back to a cult of the Hagna . A number of goddesses were worshiped with the epithet Hagna, in particular the goddess Persephone .

literature

Ernst Bischoff : Hagneion 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, column 2207 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Cf. Catherine Trümpy : Investigations into the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 98.
↑ Georg Weicker : Hagna. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, column 2206 ( digitized version ).

[1] Cf. Catherine Trümpy : Investigations into the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 98.

[2] Georg Weicker : Hagna. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, column 2206 ( digitized version ).