Daphnephoria
Daphnephoria was a festival held every ninth year at
History
The Daphnephoria consisted of a procession in which the chief figure was a boy of good family and noble appearance, whose father and mother must be alive. With young participants, the procession was able to combine components together, which signified an important stage or rite of passage.
Ancient sources
The Daphnephoros dedicated a bronze tripod in the temple of Apollo, and Pausanias (ix. 10.4) mentions the tripod dedicated there by Amphitryon when his son Heracles had been Daphnephoros. The festival is described by Proclus, quoted by Photius in his Bibliotheca, codex 239.[2]
References
- ^ Langdon, Susan (2008). "Virgin Territory: The Construction of the Maiden" (PDF). Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 B.C.E.: 182.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Daphnephoria". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 825–826. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- August Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898);
- KO Müller, Orchomenos (1844);
- Article in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquités;
- Aesthetic Movementwhich references Frederic Leighton's painting of the festival.