ἀνθιππασία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀντι- (anti-, “one against another”) + ἱππεύς (hippeús, “knight”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), literally “knightly-contest”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /an.tʰip.pa.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /an.tʰip.paˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /an.θip.paˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /an.θip.paˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /an.θi.paˈsi.a/
Noun
ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ • (anthippăsíā) f (genitive ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς); first declension
- (historical) A traditional cavalry display in Ancient Athens; in particular, a series of contests occurring later in the democratic period as a contest between tribal cavalry units at Athenian festivals such as the Olympieia and Panathenaea.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ hē anthippăsíā |
τὼ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ tṑ anthippăsíā |
αἱ ἀνθιππᾰσίαι hai anthippăsíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς tês anthippăsíās |
τοῖν ἀνθιππᾰσίαιν toîn anthippăsíain |
τῶν ἀνθιππᾰσιῶν tôn anthippăsiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾳ tēî anthippăsíāi |
τοῖν ἀνθιππᾰσίαιν toîn anthippăsíain |
ταῖς ἀνθιππᾰσίαις taîs anthippăsíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱν tḕn anthippăsíān |
τὼ ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ tṑ anthippăsíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱς tā̀s anthippăsíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ anthippăsíā |
ἀνθιππᾰσίᾱ anthippăsíā |
ἀνθιππᾰσίαι anthippăsíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: anthippasia
See also
- Olympieia
- Panathenaea
Further reading
- “ἀνθιππασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Xenophon Hipparchikos III.10-13 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0209%3Atext%3DCav.%3Achapter%3D3)
- http://pom.bbaw.de/ig/IG%20II_III%C2%B3%204,%20252