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Headword: Kerameikos
Adler number: kappa,1355
Translated headword: Kerameikos, Ceramicus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An elevated place in Attica, where every year the Athenians used to celebrate a contest in torch-racing [and?] singing/dancing. [It is said that] an elevated tower exists there; it is on this that he is advising him to climb up to watch the torch-race, and when [the competitors] have been sent off, to send himself down.
Greek Original:
Kerameikos: topos tês Attikês hupsêlos, hopou epeteloun hoi Athênaioi kat' etos lampados chorou agôna. huparchein de ekeise purgon hupsêlon: eph' hon sumbouleuei auton anabanta theôrein tên lampada, kai hotan aphethôsin, apheinai heauton katô.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 131 (Heracles speaking to Dionysus, web address 1); see also epsiloniota 157. The event in question was part of the Panathenaea festival: see Dover ad loc., and H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 46.
cf. already kappa 1354, and again kappa 1356, kappa 1357.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; athletics; comedy; definition; geography; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 September 2005@06:57:19.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 2 September 2005@12:44:18.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 4 September 2005@04:41:36.
David Whitehead on 18 February 2013@07:03:52.
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