Festivals

Names of deities omit the article, except when emphatic (νὴ τὸν Δία by Zeus) or when definite cults are referred to: τὸ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἕδος the sanctuary of Athena (at Athens) I. 15.2. Names of festivals vary in prose writers (no article in inscriptions): Παναθήναια the Panathenaea (but Παναθηναίοις τοῖς μῑκροῖς at the Lesser Panathenaea L. 21.4). Names of shrines have the article.

The names of the regular recurring festivals which serve to date an <*>ccurrence stand in the dative: Παναθηναίοις at the Panathenaea D. 21.156, <*>οῖς Διονῡσίοις at the Dionysia 21. 1, ταῖς πομπαῖς at the processions 21. 171, τοῖς <*>οαγῳδοῖς at the representations of the tragedies Aes. 3.176. ἐν is rarely added.