If you attended one of the St. Sophias Greek Cultural Festivals in the past, the location is no different for 2022. The event is taking place June 9th through 12th this year at the St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church in Syracuse. Thursday, June 9th, 5-9 pm Friday, June 10th, 5-10 pm...
Like Christmas, which is related to pre-Christian winter festivals, Easter is connected in many ways with pagan rituals that accompanied the arrival of spring. It is possible that the name "Easter" stemmed from that of Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of springtime. Easter is also associated ...
Besides political events, the author of the Marmor Parium put an emphasis on cultural, mythical, political and religious aspects, thus including references to the Trojan War, the introduction of minted coins and religious festivals.[75] Above all, poetry played a prominent role, especially of ...
which became the basis for festivals, ritual, rites, and the organization of mysteries.[13]There is the observation, for example, that sufferings (pathea) gave rise to the rituals of grief and mourning, which came before the joy in the mysteries in the sequence...
EYEWITNESS TRAVEL TOP 10 GREEK ISLANDS each á Chaniá Crete 10 Stunning bays and beaches k Aptera Día likianos Perama Fodele Irakleio Avlaki 10 Irákleio gk Amníssos Bay Vibrant festivals and events Samariá Chersónissos Spinalong Arménoi Anogeia 9 Gorge Plakias Platania7 Palace Malia Eloúnda...
In the Republic, Plato says that Orphic priests “can expiate and cure with pleasurable festivals any misdeed of a man or his ancestors.”31 In the Phaedrus, Plato makes an even more explicit reference. Again, where plagues and mightiest woes have bred in certain families, owing to some ...
The standard work on Attic dramatic festivals is Arthur Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, 2nd ed. rev. by John Gould and David M. Lewis (1988). Fifth-century Athenian building is put in a political context in Johannes Sipko Boersma, Athenian Building Policy from 561/0 ...