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Headword:
*panaqh/naia
Adler number: pi,152
Translated headword: Panathenaia, Panathenaea
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Two sorts of Panathenaia were held at
Athens, one every year, the other on a five-year cycle,[1] which they called the Great [Panathenaia]. The first to hold the festival was Erichthonios the son of Hephaistos.[2] The Panathenaia were previously called the Athenaia.
*panaqh/naia: ditta\ *panaqh/naia h)/geto *)aqh/nhsi, ta\ me\n kaq' e(/kaston e)niauto/n, ta\ de\ dia\ pentaethri/dos, a(\ kai\ mega/la e)ka/loun. h)/gage de\ th\n e(orth\n prw=tos *)erixqo/nios o( *(hfai/stou. ta\ de\ *panaqh/naia pro/teron *)aqh/naia e)kalou=nto.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v., commenting on
Demosthenes 4.35.
See also
pi 151, and generally OCD4 s.v. Panathenaea.
[1] By Greek inclusive reckoning (counting y-n-n-n-y); we would say 'four-year'.
[2] See generally
epsilon 3014.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 April 2003@06:28:28.
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