Note 665 — Chapter VI · LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK

Opera et dies, 770 sq.; Herodotus, vi, 57; Æschylus, Septem contra Thebas, 800; Plutarch, Quæstiones conviviales, viii, 1, 2; Lydus, De mensibus, ii, 12. The seventh day of each month was a holiday for Greek children, in remembrance of Apollo’s birth on the seventh of Thargelion (Lucian, Pseudologistes, 16). The first and twentieth of the month were also consecrated to Apollo, who received in consequence the cult titles Ἑβδομαγέτης, Νεομήνιος and Εἰκάδιος. According to Plutarch (Dion, 23), a festival of Apollo was also celebrated on the fifteenth of the month. On the seventh day in Greece see, further, L. R. Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, Oxford, 1906-1910, iv, 258 sq.; idem, Greece and Babylon, London, 1911, p. 295; O. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte, Munich, 1906, ii, 939 sqq.; M. P. Nilsson, “Die älteste griechische Zeitrechnung, Apollo und der Orient,” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 1911, xiv, 442 sqq.