boule decreed to regulate the cult and festival of Bendis, this much is clear from the inscription. Bendis herself is named in line 13 and the date of her festival, the 19 th of Thargelion, is mentioned [...] -structure superimposed onto ancient festivals after 508, like at the City Dionysia where the dithyrambic agones were organized on a phyle -basis. In these festivals the unity of the Athenian polis was [...] distribution –through which differences in status could be created– were sent not only to large polis festivals like the Panathenaia but also to the smaller Eleusinia, where a more select group participated.
different contexts: from the simple and concrete act of throwing a stone (as it literally means) to the festival ( Lithobolia ) celebrated at Troezen in honour of Lamia and Auxesia. In epic poems, throwing a [...] from which people springs [18] . Then, at Troezen Lithobolia becomes a real ritual and festival, an heorte , as Pausanias says [19] , and in classical Athens the lithobolia is a ritual
vernarum in Valentia ) and to a close relationship with the slave traders (who found in the Isiac festivals an occasion for prolific sales, as remembered by Pausanias when discussing the sanctuary of Isis
many reasons [72] : the competition between patricians and plebeians, the latter with their festivals of Ceres and Flora; the foreign policy of Rome which wanted to annex the Anatolian orient, the place
in Harvard Theological Review 84.2 (1991): 142. ↩ A branch associated with the festival of Sukkoth. ↩ A citrus fruit perhaps like a lemon that is associated with Sukkoth.
