DIIPO´LIA
DIIPO´LIA or
DIPO´LIA
(
Διιπόλια,
Διπόλια or
Διπόλεια), an annual
festival celebrated at Athens in honour of Zeus, the protector of the city
(
Πολιεύς), to whom a bull was
sacrificed, whence the festival was also called Buphonia (
Aristoph. Peace 420;
Av.
984-5, with the Scholia). It took place on the 14th of Skirophorion, and
cannot therefore, as some have believed, be the same as the Diasia, which
was held in Anthesterion. It is possible that the
θυσία τῷ Διὶ σωτῆρι, mentioned in an inscription
(
C. I. G. 151), may refer to the Dipolia. (Comp. Antiph.
Tetral. 1.4.8;
Paus. 1.24,
[p. 1.637] § 4, 28.11;
Ael. VH 8.3; Porph.
de Abst. 2.29; Creuzer,
Symbolik, 1.172, 4.122 ff. ; Hermann,
Gottesd.
Alterth. § 61, n. 16, 17; A. Mommsen,
Heortol. p. 453 ff.)
[
L.S]
