Panathenaia festival
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The Panathenaia was a religious festival held in Athens, Greece.
Held every year at the end of July and the beginning of August, the festival grew more grandiose every fourth year, when it was called the Great Panathenaia. The celebrations included athletic games, musical performances and contests, communal feasting, torch relay race,[1] and a procession in which the wheeled ship[2] was paraded through the polis. The festival included the hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, at the Altar of Athena on the Akropolis Sanctuary.[3] One key scene of the festival was the offering of a new peplos to the goddess Athena by the arrhephoroi.[4]
The winners of the Panathenaic games were awarded the most expensive Athenian olive oil, considered the purest in the Greek world.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Discovery Tour / The Akropolis of Athens: The Great Panathenaia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Historical Locations / Attika: Panathenaia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Discovery Tour / The Akropolis of Athens: Altar of Athena
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Discovery Tour / The Akropolis of Athens: House of the Arrhephoroi