Skira
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This article is about the Athenian festival. For the place where the festival took place, see Scirum. For the coastal town in central-eastern Tunisia, see Skhira. For the Swiss publishing house, see Skira (publisher). For the setting of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, see Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising § Setting.
The
Ancient Greek: Σκιροφόρια) in the calendar of ancient Athens, closely associated with the Thesmophoria, marked the dissolution of the old year in May/June.[1]
Description
At Athens, the last month of the year was
At Skiron there was a sanctuary dedicated to Demeter/Kore and one to Athena.
As a festival of dissolution, the Skira was a festival proverbial for license, in which men played
Ecclesiazusae (393 BCE), in which the women seize the opportunity afforded by the festival, to hatch their plot to overthrow male domination
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See also
Notes
- ^ The festival is analysed by Walter Burkert, in Homo Necans (1972, tr. 1983:143-49), with bibliography p 143, note 33.
- Hellenisticinnovation rather than an archaic survival (Burkert 1983:)
- ^ See Poseidon#The foundation of Athens; the connection was an early one: in the Odyssey (vii.81), Athena was said to have "entered the house of Erechtheus" (noted by Burkert 1983:144).
- ^ Inscriptiones Graeca, noted by Burkert 1983: 145, note 41; see also Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903, 3rd ed. 1922:134f).
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