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A spring festival in Edessa, 502 CE (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity
12 Assyrian Identity
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices


 		Keywords
Edessa
festivals
Period
6th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 46:
During this month (= May), when the day came on which was celebrated that evil festival of the Greek myths, on which information was given by us above, an order came from the emperor Anastasius that the dancers should dance no more in any of the cities of his imperial domain. Therefore anyone who pays attention to the outcome of events will not criticise us for having said that the punishments of hunger and plague developed and came upon us because of the evil which the citizens committed at this festival.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 46

Bibliography

Greatrex and Watt 1999, 6Greatrex, Geoffrey and John W. Watt. “One, Two or Three Feasts? The Brytae, the Maiuma and the May Festival at Edessa.” Oriens Christianus 83 (1999) 1-20.

Amar Annus


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