... of two different kinds: on the one hand the festival nexus of the Plynteria and Kallynteria, and on the other the Panathenaia and the City Dionysia — two festivals characterized as ‘panathenaic’. The chapter also discusses the methodological issues raised by the reconstruction of Athenian festivals. genē...

...This chapter attempts to reconstruct the basic skeleton of the nexus of the Plynteria and Kallynteria. In the nexus of the Plynteria and Kallynteria, abnormality and pollution were correlative with primordiality, in complex ways. The movement towards purification and transition to normality...

...The reconstructions and investigations set out in this book have illustrated, among many other things, the very different ways in which different genē were involved in different festivals, more specifically, in the whole polis festivals of the Plynteria, Kallynteria, Panathenaia...