Brasideia
βρασίδεια
Brasideia (βρασίδεια), a festival celebrated at Sparta in honour of their great general Brasidas, who, after his death, in B.C. 422, received the honours of a hero. (Paus. 3.14.1; Aristot. Eth. Nic. 5.7.) It was held every year with orations and contests, in which none but Spartans were allowed to partake.
Brasideia were also celebrated at Amphipolis, which, though a colony of Athens, transferred the honour of κτίστης from Hagnon to Brasidas, who was buried there, and paid him heroic honours by an annual festival with sacrifices and contests. (Thuc. 5.11.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.