About Maiuma (festival)
Maiuma or Maiouma, also written with a final s (Ancient Greek: Μαϊουμᾶς), was a Graeco-Syrian nocturnal water festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite and held during the month of May-Artemisios. According to Malalas (Chronicle 284–285), it was celebrated in Antioch every three years as a nocturnal festival, also known as Orgies, or the Mysteries of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Its most famous venue was Daphne-by-Antioch (Daphne, a suburb of the Hellenistic metropolis on the Orontes). Aquatic displays, mime and dance shows made the festival very popular in several cities of the East Roman Empi.
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