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Panathenaic festival6 mentions

Clouds (Greek) · First Philippic (Greek) · Apophthegmata Laconica (Greek) · Phocion (Greek) · Theseus (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

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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.

First PhilippicClassical · Greek

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

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 …

first philippic ¶

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

first philippic ¶

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.

hipparchus ¶

IonClassical · Greek

A major Athenian festival with contests, including rhapsodic performance, which Ion hopes to win.

so now, mind that we win too at the Panathenaea.

ion ¶

Why, so we shall, God willing.

ion ¶

Apophthegmata LaconicaImperial · Greek

Athens's great civic festival, where a version of the old-man-and-seat story recurs, with the visiting Spartans alone giving the old man a place.

For at the great solemnity of the Athenians, the Panathenaic festival, the Attics abused an old man, calling him as if they designed to make room for him, and when he came putting him off again;

chapter 69 ¶

PhocionImperial · Greek

Athenian festival at which Phocion's son Phocus competed and won as a vaulting rider.

When Phocus his son wished to compete at the Panathenaic festival as a vaulting rider of horses, Phocion permitted it, not because he was ambitious for the victory, but in order that care and training of the body might make his son a better man;

chapter 20 ¶

TheseusImperial · Greek

Festival instituted by Theseus upon naming and founding the unified city of Athens.

Accordingly, after doing away with the townhalls and council-chambers and magistracies in the several communities, and after building a common town-hall and council-chamber for all on the ground where the upper town of the present day stands, he named the city Athens, and instituted a Panathenaic festival.

chapter 24 ¶

History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

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

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;

book 6 ¶

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.

book 6 ¶