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2019 - Volume 2 - Number 1

Ancient Festivals and Their Cultural Contribution to Society

Kotsori Ioanna- Soultana * ioannakotsori@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-6028-7387
University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Kalamata, GREECE

Open Journal for Studies in History, 2019, 2(1), 19-26 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsh.0201.02019k
Online Published Date: 21 October 2019

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

ARTICLE (Full Text - PDF)Ancient Festivals and Their Cultural Contribution to Society

KEY WORDS: festival, celebrations, PanHellenic games, cultural management.

ABSTRACT:
Festivals are cultural and social events involving a multitude of events and are usually held by a crowd of people in a community. We have written testimonies of the existence of holidays in the ancient Egyptian, the Ancient Greece, and the Ancient Rome. These celebrations were mostly religious in nature, and were rural or devoted to the patron gods, or local heroes. In Ancient Athens, each celebration consists of the procession, the sacrifice, the hymns, the sacrificial meal and the races that can be athletic (nude), equestrian and musician. In addition to the festivities that exclusively concerned citizens of a particular city excluding any other Greeks, there were also Pan-Hellenic cults and races, common and open to the entire Greek community. Organizing local festivals enhances local artistic development. In particular, it contributes to the production and promotion of various forms of artistic expression but also to the exploitation of cultural potential.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Ioanna-Soultana Kotsori, University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, Kalamata, GREECE. E-mail: ioannakotsori@gmail.com.

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