Noumenia Fest Guide

Noumenia Fest Guide turns the opaque Attic lunar year into a clear, visual companion for anyone who needs trustworthy cult context—classics students prepping exams, Hellenic-studies teachers building a syllabus, mythology writers checking rite timing, museum educators framing a gallery talk, or travelers planning a trip around real festival seasons. Bidirectional date conversion Pick any Gregorian date or any Attic month and day. Toggle common versus intercalary year rules, see the twelve month names from Hekatombaion through Skirophorion, and optionally overlay prytany labels when you need civic Athenian context beside the sacred calendar. Festival catalog you can actually filter Browse rites by Attic month, primary deity, city-state (Athens, Eleusis, Delphi, Olympia, Sparta, Delos), and rite type—procession, bloodless offering, agon and games, mystery overview, or civic oath. Each festival card opens a phased timeline, who took part, and a classroom-safe summary of the rite. Deity cult dossiers Explore 15+ core gods and heroes with domains, major epithets, typical offerings and avoidances, signature sanctuaries, and linked festivals. Use side-by-side compare mode (for example Demeter versus Dionysus) when you are drafting an essay or lecture. Interactive sanctuary map MapKit pins mark major temene and panhellenic sites. Tap for a short archaeological blurb, associated festivals, and modern visitor orientation notes. Jump straight from a festival or deity card onto the map. Myth-episode linker From any festival or deity, open concise original summaries plus citation pointers—Homeric Hymns sections, Pausanias loci, and tragedy titles as references only (no copyrighted full texts)—so you move from rite to story without leaving the app. Personal study shelf Bookmark festivals, pin exam deities, star sanctuaries, and assemble ordered reading paths such as “Dionysia week,” “Eleusis module,” or “Olympia trip.” Everything stores locally and supports drag reorder so your shelf matches how you actually study or teach. Lunar strip and Charts analytics A moon-phase strip for the selected Attic month, festival-density bars by month, and a deity-share pie for your bookmarked set help teachers balance a term and help students see concentration at a glance. Pronunciation pad Tap any festival, month, epithet, or place name to hear carefully paced Greek-style pronunciation with on-screen syllable highlight—built for classroom clarity via AVFoundation speech. One shared calendar for exam prep, novel research, syllabus design, and Greece trip planning—without scattering handbooks across your desk.