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Oskhophoria

Oskhophoria

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The Oskhophoria was a separate ceremony held on the same day as the Pyanepsia honored Dionysos and Athena Skira who protects the grape harvest.  The  celebration consisted mainly of a procession from a now unknown temple of Dionysos to the temple of Athena Skiras (at Phaleron).  Two young males dressed as women (relating again to the events from the legends of Theseus), carried vine branches with bunches of grapes (oskhoi) still attached (Plutarch, Theseus, XXIII, 2-3).  The herald accompanying the procession did not wear a garland, as is the custom, but attached it to his herald’s staff, because of the precedent set in the legend of Theseus.

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