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Panathenaic festival3 mentions

Clouds (Greek) · First Philippic (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

Were you ever, after being stuffed with broth at the Panathenaic festival, then disturbed in your belly, and did a tumult suddenly rumble through it?

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CloudsClassical · Greek

An Athenian religious festival, cited by Socrates as the setting for Strepsiades' bodily-noise anecdote used to explain thunder.

Were you ever, after being stuffed with broth at the Panathenaic festival, then disturbed in your belly, and did a tumult suddenly rumble through it?

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First PhilippicClassical · Greek

A major Athenian festival used as a model of scheduled and legally ordered organization.

The explanation is that at the festivals everything is ordered by statute;

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And yet, men of Athens, how do you account for the fact that the Panathenaic festival and the Dionysia are always held at the right date, whether experts or laymen are chosen by lot to manage them, that larger sums are lavished upon them than upon any one of your expeditions, that they are celebrated with bigger crowds and greater splendor than anything else of the kind in the world, whereas your …

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EuthyphroClassical · Greek

An Athenian religious festival at which a robe depicting the gods' battles is carried in procession to the Acropolis.

And so you believe that there was really war between the gods, and fearful enmities and battles and other things of the sort, such as are told of by the poets and represented in varied designs by the great artists in our sacred places and especially on the robe which is carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea?

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HipparchusClassical · Greek

The Athenian festival at which Hipparchus is credited with instituting the relay recitation of Homer's poems by the rhapsodes, a practice said to continue into the speakers' own time.

I mean my and your fellow-citizen, Pisistratus’s son Hipparchus, of Philaidae, who was the eldest and wisest of Pisistratus’s sons, and who, among the many goodly proofs of wisdom that he showed, first brought the poems of Homer into this country of ours, and compelled the rhapsodes at the Panathenaea to recite them in relay, one man following on another, as they still do now.

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ParmenidesClassical · Greek

The major Athenian religious festival during which Zeno and Parmenides visited Athens and the original conversation took place.

Antiphon, then, said that Pythodorus told him that Zeno and Parmenides once came to the Great Panathenaea;

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

Athenian civic festival chosen by the conspirators as the only day armed citizens could gather without suspicion.

When therefore the festival arrived, Hippias, with his body-guard, was arranging outside of the walls, in what is called the Ceramicus, how the several parts of the procession were to proceed.

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but they were waiting for the great Panathenaic festival, on which day alone it was not considered a suspicious circumstance that those of the citizens who had conducted the procession should meet together in arms;

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