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Maiuma festival in Antioch (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity



03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices


Keywords
festivals
Maiuma
Period
4th century CE
Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire
Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars


Text
Julian the Emperor, Misopogon 362D:
Yet every one of you (= Antiochenes) delights to spend money privately on dinners and feasts; and I know very well that many of you squandered very large sums of money on dinners during the May festival (Maiuma).


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Julian the Emperor, Misopogon 362D

Bibliography

Greatrex and Watt 1999, 9Greatrex, 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.

Links (external links will open in a new browser window)
Cf. Antiochene spring festival during Commodus’ reign 180-192 CE (1)
Cf. John the Lydian on the Maiuma festival (1)
Cf. The Maiuma spring festival (1)
Cf. The Maiuma spring festival (2)
Cf. The Maiuma spring festival at Antioch (1)
Cf. The Maiuma spring festival at Antioch (2)

Amar Annus


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