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Ithomaea

ἰθώμαια

Ithomaea (ἰθώμαια), an annual festival celebrated at Ithome, in honour of Zeus Ithomatas, with which in early times a musical contest was connected. (Paus. 4.33.3; Steph. Byz. s. v.).

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.