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The Panathenaia

Athens' great civic festival of Athena, featuring a grand procession bearing a newly woven robe (peplos) to the goddess's statue, with sacrifice, games, and contests.

How it traveled

  1. Symposium
    Athens · -354
    explains
  2. Description of Greece
    — · 180
    explains
  3. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
    explains

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Xenophon, Symposium 1.2↗explains

Symposium · Xenophon

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.29.1↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.2.1↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.29.16↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 2.54↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 3.53↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 4.64↗applies

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 5.13↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 5.23↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Herodotus, Histories 4.180.2↗explains

Histories · Herodotus

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Herodotus, Histories 5.56.1↗explains

Histories · Herodotus

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.24.7↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Xenophon, Hellenica 1.4.12↗explains

Hellenica · Xenophon

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.89↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 12.45↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 15.38↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 3.64↗applies

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 4.67↗applies

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Herodotus, Histories 1.60.5↗applies

Histories · Herodotus

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Herodotus, Histories 6.87.1↗explains

Histories · Herodotus

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