Hieros (month)

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Hieros ( ancient Greek Ἱερός , "holy") is a month of several Greek calendars .

It is attested in inscriptions for the calendar of Delos belonging to the Ionian calendar group and for the Arcadian calendar . On Delos it stood between the Lenaion and the Galaxion , in the Attic calendar , the reference calendar for Ionic local calendars, it is equated with the Anthesterion , which corresponds roughly to February in the Julian calendar . It probably got its name from the main Deli festival of Apollonia , which was celebrated in honor of Delos' main god Apollon . That it was the holiest festival of the Delier is justified by the fact that it was the only festival that kept lists of the Choregoi and special honors were given. In addition, the representatives of other poleis , the Proxenoi , were announced during the festival . In an inscription from an unknown polis from Arcadia , it appears in the twelfth position between the Enaios and the Pasios , but its location in the year is difficult. On the one hand, only the seventh month of Krokagorios gives an indication of his position in the year, since it is the harvest month of the saffron , probably October. On the other hand, the traditional calendar contains thirteen months, a year with a leap month , without indicating which month this is. In any case, the Arcadian hieros is a winter or spring month.

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  1. ↑ Bulletin de correspondance hellénique , Volume 29, 1909, p. 489 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ David Moore Robinson : A New Logos Inscription . In: Hesperia 27, 1958. pp. 74-78.
  3. ^ Catherine Trümpy : Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 63f.
  4. ↑ Ernst Bischoff : Hieros 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 2, Stuttgart 1913, Sp. 1588.
  5. ↑ Cf. Martin Persson Nilsson : Greek festivals of religious importance excluding the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906. Reprint Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-519-07254-8 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Catherine Trümpy: Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , p. 258.