Stenia
Stenia ( old Gr . Στήνια) was a festival in ancient Greece in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone .
The stenia was celebrated two days before the thesmophoria on the 9th of Pyanepsion in Athens and possibly also in Eleusis . Like the thesmophoria, it was reserved exclusively for women. We only know about the content of the festival that the women mocked each other at night .
Traditions exist only in the form of mentions in Aristophanes' Die Thesmophoriazusen and in later lexicographers. It was suspected sporadically in pictorial representations, but cannot be identified with certainty. That it is a festival in honor of Demeter and Persephone can be seen from the fact that the Prytans sacrificed to them on this day.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deubner, p. 52f.
- ↑ Aristophanes : Die Thesmophoriazusen 834.
- ↑ In Hesychios of Alexandria and Photios I.
- ↑ Simon, pp. 20f.
- ↑ Parke, p. 88.
literature
- Ludwig Deubner : Attic festivals . Unchangeable Reprint d. 1932 published in Heinrich Keller, Berlin, ed. Edition. Akademie-Verlag. Berlin 1956.
- Herbert W. Parke : Festivals of the Athenians . Cornell University Press. Ithaca 1977. ISBN 0-8014-1054-1
- Erika Simon : Festivals of Attica. An archaeological commentary . Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press 1983. ISBN 0-299-09180-5