CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Attic Calendar, Aulos, Dionysia
Document Summary
Represent the solidarity of community worshipping that particular cult. Panegyris; community solidarity; town, tribe, cult association. Festival might collect exculsives of a cult called mysteries. Might be pan hellenic festival; where community was only greeks. Some people were special participants; priests set apart from running cult committee; there were choirs dressed and practicsed for event; athletes obviously; and people recruited to assist with spectacles like displays etc; Procession was a main part; people in group walking together through a special place; sacred ways; paths that guided like for example that with. Delphi; might link a city to a sanctuary like athens to brauron for example. Dionysiac festivals; dns; maenads girls who went in wilderness to worship dns. Athens has 7 dns festivals every year; 3 had dramatic competitions; gives best evidence for dns celebrations because of the huge amount of pottery in athens.
