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The Maiuma spring festival (1)

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Comedy
06 Visual arts and architecture
06.07 Performing arts
06.07.01 Comedy
Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.02 Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April)

Keywords
festivals
Maiuma

Period
5th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Two laws addressed to the serving praetorian prefect of the East.

Codex Theodosianus 15.6.1-2:
1. It has pleased Our Clemency to restore to the provincials the enjoyment of the Maiuma, provided, however, that decency and modesty and chaste manners shall be preserved (25 April 396).
2. We permit the theatrical arts to be practised, lest, by excessive restriction thereof, sadness may be produced. But we forbid that foul and indecent spectacle which under the name Maiuma a shameless license claims for its own (2 October 399).

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Codex Theodosianus 15.6.1-2

Bibliography

Greatrex and Watt 1999, 9-10

Greatrex, 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. Maiuma festival in Antioch (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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