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Headword: Stênia
Adler number: sigma,1089
Translated headword: Stenia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
and Skira: women's festivals.
Greek Original:
Stênia kai Skira: heortai gunaikôn.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 834 (and more fully in other lexica), where proedria -- preferential fronts seats (pi 2381) -- at these two festivals is mentioned. See web address 1.
For the Skira cf. sigma 623, sigma 626. Of the Stenia, much less is known, but see H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 88.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 September 2004@06:14:51.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 5 January 2005@23:49:46.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 6 January 2005@02:57:36.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 19 August 2011@10:35:05.

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