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What holy days did the ancient Greeks celebrate throughout the year?

I am looking for information about the Holy days and Festivals the ancient Greeks celebrated throughout the year (and WHEN they were celebrated) and perhaps some insight into their calendar and how it compares to our calendar. I am aware of some, but I'm sure not all. I've already studied several websites on this, so I'm not going to award anyone best answer who sends me to a site I've been to.

I'm interested in info in general, but I realized things were different according to the region, so if we could focus on Sparta, that would be great. Lacking Sparta, Athens will do, but please specify which you're talking about as there's a huge difference. Thanks so much.

Update:

Sorry. I'm looking for info relating to the classical era.

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  • 2 decades ago
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    The City of Dyonisia; was their annual acting/theatre festival. It could be considered a holy week actually. It was held in Athens first then slowly spread to all the city states.

    This would usually be held in late summer/early fall. Since Dionysius is the greek god of Wine it would have been held after the grape harvests.

    Source(s): Theatre history, Stage and School, and college lectures
  • 5 years ago

    Out of habit. I nevertheless even rejoice Easter if required, yet I now have my very very own day for that on what I beleive is the nighttime Jesus replace into actual taken away to work out Pilate. The Christian faith, which ought to have been a Jewish based changed Jesus faith, have been given became right into a Modifed Pagan faith by using Constantine in 300AD. Him and his human beings picked dates for issues that have been on the fringe of present Pagan holiday trips and made them Christian, those contain Christmas and Easter. considering the fact that this faith, which became the Catholic faith, decreed that all and sundry ought to persist with the respectable rules and those have been now the respectable rules, they did so blindly. while Luther, Henry, Calvary and others broke off and based the varioius Protestant faiths, they shop those traidiotions, in all probability via fact they have been ingrained and ordinary. The Greek and Russian (eastern) Orthodox did not and that they rejoice Easter nearer to the JEwish calendar, frequently a week faraway from Western Christian religions.

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