Saturday, February 11, 2006
This Day in Ancient History
This was the first day of of the Anthesteria in Greece, the Festival of the New Wine, which was a three day celebration sacred to Dionysos, the god of wine (all things liquid really, including semen) and drama. On this the first day, the Pithoigia, the pithoi, the large storage jars, were unsealed. The festival was popular from middle Iron Age until about 800 BC.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:26 AM 
