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DIONYSIA , festivals in See also:honour of the See also:god See also:Dionysus generally, but in particular the festivals celebrated in See also:Attica and by the branches of the See also:Attic-Ionic See also:race in the islands and in See also:Asia See also:Minor. In Attica there were two festivals annually. (1) The lesser Dionysia, or ra sag' aypo6s, was held in the See also:country places for four days (about the 19th to the 22nd of See also:December) at the first tasting of the new See also:wine. It was accompanied by songs, See also:dance, phallic processions and the See also:impromptu performances of itinerant players, who with others from the See also:city thronged to take See also:part in the excitement of the rustic See also:sports. A favourite amusement was the Ascoliasmus, or dancing on one See also:leg upon a leathern bag (aaKOS), which had been smeared with oil. (2) The greater Dionysia, or 7a Ev aarei, was held in the city of See also:Athens for six days (about the 28th of See also:March to the 2nd of See also:April). This was a festival of joy at the departure of See also:winter and the promise of summer, Dionysus being regarded as having delivered the See also:people from the wants and troubles of winter. The religious See also:act of the festival was the conveying of the See also:ancient See also:image of the god, which had been brought from Eleutherae to Athens, from the ancient See also:sanctuary of the Lenaeum to a small See also:temple near the See also:Acropolis and back again, with a See also:chorus of boys and a procession carrying masks and singing the dithyrambus. The festival culminated in the See also:production of tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas in the See also:great See also:theatre of Dionysus. Other festivals in honour of Dionysus were the
See also:Anthesteria (q.v.); the Lenaea (about the 28th to the 31St of See also:January), or festival of vats, at which, after a great public banquet, the citizens went through the city in procession to attend the dramatic representations; the Oschophoria (October–November), a vintage festival, so called from the blanches of See also:vine with grapes carried by twenty youths frorp the See also:ephebi, two from each tribe, in a race from the temple of Dionysus in Athens to the temple of See also:Athena Sciras in Phalerum.
See A. See also:Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); L. See also:Preller, Griechische Mythologie; L. C. See also:Purser in See also:- SMITH
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Smith's See also:Dictionary of Antiquities (3rd ed., 1890) ; See also:article DIouvsos in W. H. See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; and the exhaustive See also:account with bibliography by J. See also:Girard in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites.
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