The Anthesteria (/ˌænθɪˈstɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεστήρια [antʰestέːri.a]) was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus. It was held...

and prizes for both dramatists and actors in multiple categories. The Anthesteria (Ἀνθεστήρια) was an Athenian festival that celebrated the beginning of...

favor of innate grammar The Pots (Χύτροι, Khýtroi), the last day of the Anthesteria festival in ancient Athens All pages with titles beginning with POTS...

festivals of Theoinia and Iobaccheia that took place during the month of Anthesteria, among other duties. Fourteen in all, they were either sworn in by the...

the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bacchanalia". Anthesteria Ganachakra Maenads, female worshippers of Dionysus Saturnalia, a Roman...

example surviving in classical Greece is the hieros gamos enacted at the Anthesteria by the wife of the Archon basileus, the "Archon King" in Athens, originally...

part in a sacred ritual marriage to the god Dionysus as part of the Anthesteria. This ceremony seems to have taken place at the Boukoleion, near the...

was celebrated in ancient times not in May but in association with the Anthesteria, a festival held in February and dedicated to the goddess of agriculture...

Marriage Funeral Rites Festivals Thesmophoria Dionysia Daphnephoria Anthesteria Arrephoria Kronia Genesia Elaphebolia Pyanopsia Khalkeia Haloa Halieia...

Archaeological Museum of Delos, detail van Hoorn, G. (November 1954). "Choes and Anthesteria". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 74 – via Cambridge University Press...