Las Panateneas: topografía de una fiesta

Abstract

The Panathenaia is the most important civic festival at Athens. Every year the Athenians honoured their main divinity, Athena, with sacrifices, games and a procession that we know to the literary, epigraphically and archaeological evidences. But the festival needs a place to be celebrated; a place that in own example is the whole city. The procession connected the places the most symbolic of Athens: Kerameikos, Agora, Acropolis and the Associated celebrations involved other places (Academy, Piraeus, Odeion...). Nevertheless, this places are connections not only with the religious celebrations and its appears at the moment that the city need it. This paper is a contribution at the study of the relationships between civic topography and religion and their paralleled evolution.