Theiluthios

Theiluthios ( ancient Greek Θειλούθιος ) is a month of the Boeotian calendar .

It was the seventh month after Homoloios and before Hippodromios , in the Julian calendar it roughly corresponds to the month of July . The name is associated with the Thalysia festival, which is celebrated in summer in honor of the fertility goddess Demeter . The month is inscribed from the Poleis Thespiai , Koroneia and Orchomenos .

For the Western Greek calendar of Elis , a corrupted traditional month name has been preserved, which was also read as " Θειλούθιος " along with other proposed conjectures . The reading is supported by the fact that the months Thyios and Apollonios are used in the Elish calendar , which also appear in the Boeotian and the related Malian calendar .

literature

• Walther Sontheimer : Theiluthios. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement VI, Stuttgart 1935, Col. 1282 f. ( Digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Cf. Catherine Trümpy : Investigations into the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , pp. 244-246.
2. ↑ IG VII 1737, 10.
3. ↑ IG VII 2861, 1.
4. ↑ IG VII 3171, 1 & 3172, 177.
5. ^ Pindar , Olympia 3:33 .
6. ^ Catherine Trümpy: Investigations on the ancient Greek month names and month sequences . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0516-3 , pp. 199f.