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Saturday, July 11, 2020

PAT ritual announcement: The Panathenaia

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The 23th of Hekatombaion is traditionally the first night in a week long series of events that make up the  Panathenaia festival . This ...
Friday, July 10, 2020

PAT ritual announcement: Sacrifice to Kourotrophos and Artemis

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On the 21th of Metageitnion, so on 10 am EDT on the 13th of July, we honor Kourotrophos (κουροτρόφος, child nurturer) and the two Goddess...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Heraclitus on the elements

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Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, Hērákleitos ho Ephésios) was a pre-Socratic Hellenic philosopher who lived from about 535 to ab...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Campaign for the cemetery of the Minoan palace at Petras

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Petras, the elite cemetery of house tombs (c. 2900-1800 BC), is part of a very rare monumental topography consisting of a Minoan palace and ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

PAT ritual announcement: the Synoikia

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On the 16th of Hekatombaion, the Synoikia (συνοίκια or συνοικέσια) festival was held in Athens. It was a community festival, sacred to pri...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Kharybdis and the tides

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"The Argonauts sailed on in gloom. The Seirenes  were behind them, but worse perils lay ahead, at a place where two seas met and shipp...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

How were the ancient temples destroyed?

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I'd like to share part of a letter written by a famous Hellenic Pagan orator, Libanius, to the Christian Emperor Theodosius. It was writ...