Skira

This article is about the Athenian festival. For the place where the festival took place, see Scirum. For the coastal town in central-eastern Tunisia, see Skhira. For the Swiss publishing house, see Skira (publisher). For the setting of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, see Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising § Setting.

The festival of the Skira (Ancient Greek: Σκίρα) or Skirophoria (Ancient Greek: Σκιροφόρια) in the calendar of ancient Athens, closely associated with the Thesmophoria, marked the dissolution of the old year in May/June.[1]

  1. ^ The festival is analysed by Walter Burkert, in Homo Necans (1972, tr. 1983:143-49), with bibliography p 143, note 33.