Panathenaic festival · Atlas

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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