Oschophoria
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ E.g., Plutarch, Theseus 22.
- ^ ibid. 23
- ^ See further L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin: 1956), 142-51, with plate 35.