What was the celebration dedicated to athena called?
The Panathenaea (, "all-Athenian festival") was the most important festival for Athens and one of the grandest in the entire ancient Greek world. Except for slaves, all inhabitants of the "polis" could take part in the festival. This holiday of great antiquity is believed to have been the observance of Athena's birthday and honoured the goddess as the city's patron divinity, Athena Polias ('Athena of the city'). A procession assembled before dawn at the Dipylon gate in the northern sector of the city. The procession, led by the Kanephoros, made its way to the Areopagus and in front of the Temple of Athena Nike next to the Propylaea. Only Athenian citizens were allowed to pass through the Propylaea and enter the Acropolis. The procession passed the Parthenon and stopped at the great altar of Athena in front of the Erechtheum. Every four years a newly woven peplos was dedicated to Athena.
What was the celebration dedicated to athena's birthday called?
The Panathenaea Panathenaea
Athenian festivals
The festival of the Skira or Skirophoria in the calendar of ancient Athens, closely associated with the Thesmophoria, marked the dissolution of the old year in May/June. At Athens, the last month of the year was "Skirophorion", after the festival. Its most prominent feature was the procession that led out of Athens to a place called Skiron near Eleusis, in which the priestess of Athena and the priest of Poseidon took part, under a ceremonial canopy called the "skiron", which was held up by the "Eteoboutadai". Their joint temple on the Acropolis was the Erechtheum, where Poseidon embodied as Erechtheus remained a numinous presence.
What was the celebration dedicated to athena and Demeter called?
The Skira Skira
Athenian festivals
Athenian festivals
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Other Athenian festivals were based around family, citizenship, sacrifice and women.
Athenian festivals
As the patron divinity of Athens, several Athenian holidays were dedicated to Athena, often based around family, citizenship, sacrifice and women. Most famously, Athenian society celebrated the goddess's birthday during the all-Athenian festival, or Panathenaea. All non-enslaved inhabitants of Athens were allowed to take part in the celebration. Another Athenian festival, known as the Skira, is dedicated to both Athena and Demeter to mark the dissolution of the old year in early summer.