genesia

Updated: May 10, 2025

Indeed, there is practically no distinction between the Lares and the Manes, the souls of the good dead. But the dead had their own festival, the "Dies Parentales," held from the 13th to the 21st of February, in Rome; and in Greece the "Genesia," celebrated on the 5th of Boedromion, towards the end of September, about which we know very little.

Lacy Collison-Morley - Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Processions and pilgrimages brought the people to sacred places to which stories were attached, and the religious life became a series of object lessons. The Greek and Roman calendars contain a great number of feast days, each assigned to some god. The Greek Genesia, the season of mourning for the dead, came to be connected with the victory of Marathon.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV