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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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