These festivities date back to Ancient Greek times, when feasts were held to honour Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy, and they were
a celebration of spring and nature’s rebirth.
In the lead up to Greek Orthodox Easter, the national carnival known as Apokries, (“no more meat”), is celebrated over two weeks. It
comes before Lent begins and Greeks feast on meat and organize street parties filled with music, dance, theatre and masquerades.
Carnivale is not on a fixed date, as it depends on the date that Easter falls and traditionally begins ten weeks before Greek Orthodox Easter
and culminates on the weekend before “Clean Monday,” (Ash Monday) the first day of Lent.
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These festivities date back to Ancient Greek times, when
feasts were held to honour Dionysus, the god of wine and
ecstasy, and they were a celebration of spring and nature’s
rebirth.
In the lead up to Greek Orthodox Easter, the national
carnival known as Apokries, (“no more meat”), is celebrated
over two weeks. It comes before Lent begins and Greeks
feast on meat and organize street parties filled with music,
dance, theatre and masquerades.
Carnivale is not on a fixed date, as it depends on the date
that Easter falls and traditionally begins ten weeks before
Greek Orthodox Easter and culminates on the weekend
before “Clean Monday,” (Ash Monday) the first day of Lent.
