Poseideon

Poseideon ( Greek Ποσειδεών ) is the 6th month of the Attic calendar . It is the month after the May Macterion and before the Gamelion .

background

It is named after the main festival of the month, Poseidea , the festival in honor of the god Poseidon . In the Gregorian calendar , the Poseideon covers the period from December 10th to January 8th. In order to bring the solar calendar and the lunar calendar in line, a leap month was inserted after the Poseideon, which was also called Poseideon.

The following festivals were celebrated in Poseideon in Attica :

8. Poseideon: Poseidea
26. Poseideon: Haloa
exact date unclear: rural Dionysia

literature

August Mommsen : Feasts of the city of Athens in antiquity, arranged according to the Attic calendar . BG Teubner 1898. Digitized
HW Parke: Festivals of the Athenians . Cornell University Press, Ithaka, New York 1977. ISBN 0801410541

Individual evidence

↑ Poseideon . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 13 . Altenburg 1861, p. 405 ( zeno.org ).

[1] Poseideon . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 13 . Altenburg 1861, p. 405 ( zeno.org ).