Feast of Pitchers
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Pitcher Feast · a festival at Athens
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe Feast of Pitchers1 mention
Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek)
I hear that my misfortunes have become a festival at Athens, and they still hold this custom and the people of Pallas honor the cup that belongs to the Feast of Pitchers.
The Pitcher Feast1 mention
Acharnians (Greek)
Lamachus bids you, for this drachma here, spare him some of your thrushes for the Pitcher Feast, and for three drachmas a Copaic eel.
in the texts
Acharnians
The Athenian Choes festival of wine-drinking, referenced as the occasion for the feast and drinking contest.
Lamachus bids you, for this drachma here, spare him some of your thrushes for the Pitcher Feast, and for three drachmas a Copaic eel.
Bring the wine-ladle, that I may take it and pour out wine for the Pitcher Feast.
DICAEOPOLIS Was someone charging a reckoning at the Pitcher Feast?
Vitae philosophorum
A drinking contest at Dionysius's court in which Xenocrates was honored with a golden crown.
And when he had been honoured at the court of Dionysius with a golden crown as the prize for his prowess in drinking at the Feast of Pitchers, he went out and placed it on the statue of Hermes just as he had been accustomed to place there garlands of flowers.
Iphigenia in Tauris
An Athenian festival commemorating Orestes' pollution as a matricide, in which participants drink from separate cups.
I hear that my misfortunes have become a festival at Athens, and they still hold this custom and the people of Pallas honor the cup that belongs to the Feast of Pitchers.