ATHENS - The Panathenaia
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- The Panathenaia
- Happened every four years to celebrate Athena's birthday. In the honour of the goddess Athena
- The Peplos
- Would have been draped over the famous statue of Athena
- 2 by 1,5 metres in size roughly
- The process of weaving it began 9 months before hand by four priestesses (four young maiden girls)
- colours - yellow and purple (shows royalty)
- it depicted the myth of the Olympian god's victory over the giants
- DAY ONE - Musical and Rhapsodic contests
- Rhapsodic
- Whoevere recited extracts from the Iliad and the Odyssey the best won.
- Musical
- Singers to the Kithara
- Soloists to the Kithara
- Singers to the aulos
- Soloists to the aulos
- Flute and lyres contests
- First place - 1,000 drachmas and 500 silver drachmas
- Second place - 1,200 drachmas
- Rhapsodic
- DAY TWO - FOUR - Sporting events
- 3 Different Categories
- boys
- Beardless youth
- Men
- the sporting events were open to all Greeks, not just Athenians.
- four types of events
- combat events
- stadion
- pentathlon
- equestrian
- victorious athletes won amphorae (jars) full of olive oil (usually each jar contained 38 litres), rather than drachmas
- 3 Different Categories
- DAY FIVE - Tribal contests
- contestants were those part of the city's ten tribes
- events
- Euandrion
- trials of strength - 100 drachmas and an ox as first prize
- Boat race
- regatta at the Piraeus - 300 drachmas and 200 free meals as first prize
- Pyrrhic dance
- war dance performed - 100 drachmas and a bull as first prize
- torch race
- race around the city - 100 drachmas and a bull as first prize
- Euandrion
- The procession
- began at sunrise at the Dipylon Gate,, through the agora, and ending at the Acropolis
- Structure
- 1 - the arrêphoroi carrying the smaller peplos in a wheelbarrow
- 2 - The priestesses carrying gifts for Athena
- 3 - sacrificial animals
- 4 - wealthy metic dressed in purple robes, carrying trays of cakes
- 5 - bearers of holy water with musicians playing flutes and lyres
- 6 - the ship cart with the larger peplos
- 7 - Old men carrying olive branches and victors in the games
- 8 - ordinary Athenians
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