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The Panathenaic Way: Athens' Great Procession
Every four years, Athens staged a festival that rivaled the Olympics in scale and spectacle: the Great Panathenaea. This episode walks the Panathenaic Way from the Dipylon Gate to the Acropolis, following the procession that carried a new peplos for Athena, led citizen athletes, cavalry, and sacrificial cattle. We meet the arrhephoroi who wove the sacred garment, the apobates who raced from chariots, and the victors who took home prized Panathenaic amphorae filled with olive oil. Lucas and Luna unpack the festival's religious core—the myth of Athena and the Gigantomachy woven into the…
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