Oschophoria

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The Oschophoria (

Panagia Gorgoepikoos church in Athens, corresponding to the month Pyanopsion (alternate spelling), has been identified as an illustration of this festival's procession.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ O. Pilz, “The Performative Aspect of Greek Ritual: The Case of the Athenian Oschophoria,” in M. Haysom and J. Wallensten (eds.), Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece: Papers Presented at a Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17–19 April 2008 (Stockholm: 2011), 151-67.
  2. ^ I. Rutherford and J. Irvine, "The Race in the Athenian Oschophoria and an Oschophoricon by Pindar," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 72 (1988), 43-51.
  3. ^ E.g., Plutarch, Theseus 22.
  4. ^ ibid. 23
  5. ^ See further L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin: 1956), 142-51, with plate 35.