Pandia (festival)
The Pandia ( Greek τὰ Πάνδια "total festival of Zeus") were an annual festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Zeus .
The festival was celebrated in the Attic month of Elaphebolion , the exact date is not known. However, it must have been celebrated shortly after the Dionysias , which lasted from the 9th to the 13th Elaphebolion , because the day after a meeting was held in the Dionysostheater , in which, among other things, the misconduct during the recent Dionysia was lamented.
It is possible that the mythical Attic ruler Pandion was named after the festival, as indicated by a decree of the Phyle Pandionis , which was issued at a meeting following the Pandia and in which a priest of Pandion is praised. Martin Persson Nilsson assumes because of the decree that the festival was mainly celebrated in the Phyle Pandionis and that the eponymous hero Pandion was worshiped. However, its inspection is also attested in the phyle Aigeis .
literature
- Ludwig Deubner : Attic festivals. Keller, Berlin 1932, pp. 176–177.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Demosthenes 21, 8.
- ^ Inscriptiones Graecae II², 1140.
- ↑ Inscriptiones Graecae II², 1172 .