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Anthesteria
Anthesteria or the Anthesteria (, ''Anthestḗria'') was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus. It was held each year from the 11th to the 13th of the month of Anthesterion, around the time of the January or February full moon. The three days of the feast were called Pithoigia, Choës, and Chytroi.
It celebrated the beginning of spring, particularly the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage, whose ''pithoi'' were now ceremoniously opened. During the feast, social order was interrupted or inverted, the slaves being allowed to participate, uniting the household in ancient fashion. The Anthesteria also had aspects of a festival of the dead: either the Keres () or the Carians () were entertained, freely roaming the city until they were expelled after the festival. A Greek proverb, employed of those who pestered for continued favors, ran "Out of doors, Keres! It is no longer Anthesteria".〔Noted in Harrison 1903, p34.〕
==Name==
The name is usually connected with ''anthes-'' (), the combining form of ''ánthos'' (, "flower"). This is cognate with Sanskrit ''andhas'' ("soma plant") and may have referred to the "bloom" of the grape vine. The Cambridge ritualist A. W. Verrall, however, glossed the name as a Feast of Revocation (, ''anathessasthai'', to "pray up") in reference to the aspects of the festival where the dead were considered to walk among the living. 〔A.W. Verrall, ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', xx., 1900, p. 115.〕 Harrison also regarded the Anthesteria as primarily concerned with placating ancestral spirits.〔''Themis'' 100, 109, and ''Prolegomena''.〕
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