Panathenaea: Or, A Singular Book on the Twin Festival of Minerva

SERIES OF CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER I.

Panathenaea, the greatest festival of Minerva among the Athenians.

CHAPTER II.

Originally called Athenaia, then Panathenaia.

CHAPTER III.

Very ancient; instituted first by Erichthonius, or Orpheus: and renewed by Theseus.

CHAPTER IV.

Considered by some to be the same as the Roman Quinquatrus, and thus the names are interchanged by authors.

CHAPTER V.

How many days it was celebrated. An emended passage from Epictetus in Stobaeus.

CHAPTER VI.

They were indeed twofold; the former, the Lesser: the latter, the Greater. A great error of the scholiast of Aristophanes is indicated. At what time each was held; and the sea began to be opened at the Lesser ones.

CHAPTER VII.

And a contest was celebrated in the Lesser ones, which was threefold. Its care was entrusted to the Athlothetae judges of the games. How many were chosen, and from where; and how long they were accustomed to perform this duty.

CHAPTER VIII.

First, the equestrian contest was held, which was a torch race. From the beginning it was on foot; when it began to be equestrian. At what time, and also where, it was celebrated.