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Stenia

Stenia (altgr. Στήνια) war im antiken Griechenland ein Fest zu Ehren der Göttinnen Demeter und Persephone. Die Stenia wurde zwei Tage vor den Thesmophorien am 9. Pyanepsion in Athen und möglicherweise noch in Eleusis begangen.

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Stenia (altgr. Στήνια) war im antiken Griechenland ein Fest zu Ehren der Göttinnen Demeter und Persephone. Die Stenia wurde zwei Tage vor den Thesmophorien am 9. Pyanepsion in Athen und möglicherweise noch in Eleusis begangen. Sie war wie die Thesmophorien ausschließlich den Frauen vorbehalten. Über den Inhalt des Festes ist nur bekannt, dass sich die Frauen nachts verspotteten. Überlieferungen liegen lediglich in Form von Erwähnungen in Aristophanes Die Thesmophoriazusen und bei späteren Lexikographen vor. Auf bildlichen Darstellungen wurde sie vereinzelt vermutet, kann jedoch nicht sicher identifiziert werden. Dass es sich um ein Fest zu Ehren von Demeter und Persephone handelt ist daraus ersichtlich, dass ihnen die Prytanen an diesem Tag opferten. 1

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Ludwig Deubner: Attische Feste. Unveränd. Nachdr. d. 1932 im Verl. Heinrich Keller, Berlin, hrsg. Ausg. Akademie-Verlag. Berlin 1956. Herbert W. Parke: Festivals of the Athenians. Cornell University Press. Ithaca 1977. ISBN 0-8014-1054-1 Erika Simon: Festivals of Attica. An archaeological commentary. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press 1983. ISBN 0-299-09180-5 1

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