from Part IV - Culture and Sport
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
The ancient Athenians held two major Panhellenic festivals: the Great Panathenaia in celebration of the goddess Athena and the Great Mysteries in honor of Demeter. This chapter compares and contrasts the rituals of these two festivals in relation to the topography and monuments of Athens, focusing on how the celebrations drew together different parts of the community of Athens.
The literature on these subjects is vast; a good place to start is Parker 2005. Attic processions are the subject of chapters in Friese 2019. Mylonas 1961 is still the locus classicus for the site of Eleusis, now supplemented by the extensive work of Clinton, in particular Clinton 1992 and 2005/2008. On the nature and modern study of Mystery religions, see Cosmopoulos 2003 and Bremmer 2014. For the argument that the ritual dates back to the Bronze Age, see Cosmopoulos 2015. The City Eleusinion is thoroughly published by Miles 1998. For a general overview of the Panathenaia, see Neils 1992 and 1996, and Neils and Tracy 2003; more comprehensive is Shear 2021. For discussion of the Telesterion and the Odeion of Perikles, see Shear 2016.
Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers
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