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	Cronus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was usually depicted with a sickle, which he used to harvest crops as well as castrate his father.
		In Athens, on the twelfth day of every month (Hekatombaion), a festival called Kronia was held in honor of Cronus and to celebrate the harvest.
		Modern Neopagans have what may be percieved as a rather New Age view of Cronus, particularly Hellenistic Neopagan sects in the United States hold many metaphoric interpretations of the myths regarding Cronus.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cronus (939 words)

	The Atrium \| This Day in Ancient History \| About This Day in Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Instead of trying to figure out whether Hekatombaion was 'full' or 'hollow', I'm assuming the archon or whoever would simply wait for the next visible new moon.
		The same process will be followed for the rest of the year; to keep things in line it will be necessary to intercalate every now and then, but since I'm running the calendar and paying attention to the moon, this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
		I'm following Aristotle and assuming an Athens with only ten tribes, with a 'prytany calendar' which began on Hekatombaion 1, and in which the first four 'prytanies' were 'in prytany' for 36 days, while the last six were 'in prytany' for 35.
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	Classical Period - Politics
		When the agricultural communities of Attica were 'synoecized' with Athens, the festival was reorganized; was given the name Panathenaea; and was kept on the twenty-eighth of Hekatombaion (July).
		Starting in 566/5 B.C. (the archonship of Hippoclides), the Great Panathenaea was instituted: this was celebrated every four years, with conspicuous brilliance, it lasted twelve days, and there were many rites and sacrifices.
		The object was to bring the new fire from the grove of Academus, beyond the city walls, to the altar of Athena on the Acropolis.
	www1.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/culture/4130panathenaia.html (615 words)

	Classical Period - Politics
		The Attic year began with the month Hekatombaion (July), after the end of the cereal harvest.
		They were named for their festivals: to take two examples, in Hekatombaion there was a hecatomb festival in honour of Apollo, and in Mounichion there was the festival of Artemis at Mounichia.
		Panathenaea (in Hekatombaion) or the Thesmophoria (in Pyanepsion) or the Great Dionysia (in Elaphebolion) were not reflected in the name of the month in which they occurred.
	pegasos.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/culture/4100celebrations.html (380 words)

	Roman to Julian Conversion: Analysis AUC 642 = 112 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The synchronism cannot be this precise, since we do not have a date in Hekatombaion, and since, as Colin himself showed, the language of the text clearly showed that it had not been translated into Greek by a native speaker.
		A.U.C. fell some time in the month before the strart of Hekatombaion, to allow time for the decree to be translated into Greek, sent to Athens, and published there.
		Müller, ZPE 103 (1994) 128, has argued that the Athenian lunar calendar at this time was regulated according to a Metonic cycle.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/chron/roman/112bc.htm (357 words)

	Roman to Julian Conversion: Analysis AUC 537 = 217 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She argues against the Ptolemaic calendar on the grounds that it was not well regulated against the seasonal year and therefore would not have given the reader a good sense of when the Halieia occurred.
		Perlman finally provides a very useful survey of the literary references to the Games, the aim of which is to show that these are not inconsistent with her proposed date of c.
		All things considered, it seems to me that there is a much better case for equating Argive Panemos with Athenian Hekatombaion than with Skirophorion, Metageitnion, Bodroemion or Pyanepsion, although Metageitnion is not excluded, and indeed may occasionally have corresponded due to phase differences between the Argive and Athenian calendars in the insertion of embolimos months.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/chron/roman/217bc.htm (4775 words)

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		Unfortunately we do not know exactly how this triangular group on its rectangular base was oriented in relationship to the processional street; the evidence of the Roman period suggests that they may have faced north so that they faced the viewer walking from the Kerameikos to the Akropolis.
		The location of the statues alongside the Panathenaic Way meant that, every year on 28 Hekatombaion, the high point of the festival for Athena, the Panathenaic procession would have passed the statues on the anniversary of the heroes' deed and of Harmodios' death.
		These songs and offerings were part of the festival of Athena and probably happened on 28 Hekatombaion, the day of the procession through the city from the Kerameikos to the goddess Athena on the Akropolis, and thus, as you know from Thucydides, the anniversary of the Tyrannicides' deed.
	www.arth.upenn.edu /fall98/101/lec.html (5266 words)

	Greece Project 1
		In classical time the months began with the new moon and were named after festivals in each city.
		The names of Athenian months were: Hekatombaion, Metageimion, Boedromion, Pyanopsion, Maimakierion, Poseidon, Gamelion, Anthesterion, Elaphebolion, Mounychion, Thargelion and Skirophorion.
		After Alexander the Great's death, other calendars were adopted by the Greeks but some city-states kept their own calendars until about AD 200.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/greece/eg_greece_8.html (461 words)

	PANATHENAIC FESTIVAL
		Even metics (resident aliens) and freed slaves could participate (up to a certain point).
		The holiday fell on the 28th day of the month called Hekatombaion,
		Hekatombaion (literally, an offering of 100 oxen) was probably given as a name to this Athenian month because of the sacrifice of large numbers of cows to the goddess in the Panathenaea.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/athnlife/rligious.htm (1632 words)

	Das Schwarze Netz - Athene
		Athene war die Stadtgöttin Athens, wo man an ihrem Geburtstag, dem 28.
		Hekatombaion, die Panathenäen feierte, auch viele andere Städte weihten ihre Akropolis (Burg, Zitadelle) der Athene, so Argos, Epidaurus oder Troja.
		Herakles übergab ihr die Äpfel der Hesperides, Perseus das Haupt der Medusa.
	www.sungaya.de /schwarz/griechen/athene.htm (704 words)

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		Each year would have a total of twelve months except for a leap year, which would have thirteen months.
		The regular twelve months were Hekatombaion, Metageitnion, Boedromion, Pyanopsion, Maimmakterion, Posideon, Gamelion, Anthesterion, Elaphobolion, Mounichion, Thargelion, and Skirophorion.
		For the leap years, usually the Greeks would make a Posideon II.
	personal.monm.edu /pickens_marty/CALENDAR1.htm (793 words)

	Matriarchy.Info - Olympia - Sanctuaries of Goddesses, Games of Women
		The Pythia also were held at intervals of 50 and 49 months, but the incidence of the intercalated months of the octennial period was so arranged that the festival itself always fell in the same month (Bukatios) of the Delphic year.
		In the same way the Panathenaea, though penteteric, always fell in Hekatombaion.
		There must have been some very strong reason for the troublesome variation of months in the sole case of the most important of panhellenic gatherings.
	www.matriarchy.info /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=1 (2352 words)

	Ancient Greek Festivals
		After 440 BCE comedy seems to have been important at the competitions held during this festival.
		Answer: The Panathenea was celebrated at Athens for 5 or 6 days around the 28th of Hekatombaion.
		The festival honored the birth of Athena and centered on the presentation of a new peplos (robe) to the goddess.
	www.fjkluth.com /festival.html (4057 words)

	Cities and Patron Deities
		Twelve lunar months named after various divinities or festivals, differently in different cities.
		Athenian year deemed to begin in mid summer, dead season of the agricultural year, and the months of their year do not coincide precisely with ours: Hekatombaion, the first, began in roughly mid July and ended roughly in mid August, etc. In Athenian calendar certain festivals celebrated every month, others only annually.
		If monthly and annual festivals combined, a total of 120 days each year counted as festival days for Athenians, more than for any other Greek polis.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/polis.html (4493 words)

	The Extant Odes of Pindar by Pindar eBook by BookRags
		As a result of the invasion he became king of Elis; and the judge at the Olympic games seems to have been considered a descendant of him or of some Aitolian who came with him.]
		[Footnote 3: The Olympic games were held in the middle of the month Hekatombaion, when the moon was full.
		It is here implied that Herakles wished to institute them when the moon was full, as that was a season of good luck.]
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	Ancient Greek Olympics
		Question: what was the messenger's name in the acient greece Olympics?
		Answer: The Panathenaia was a major festival which was celebrated in Athens in the Greek month of Hekatombaion between the 23rd and the 30th day.
		The festival was in honor of the birth of Athena.
	www.fjkluth.com /olympic.html (18971 words)

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