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- Carneia (Ancient Gr****: Κάρνεια or Καρνεῖα) or Carnea (Κάρνεα) was one of the tribal traditional festivals of Sparta, the Peloponnese and Doric cities...
- Petersson, Cults of Apollo at Sparta: the hyakinthia, the gymnopaidai and the karneia Frederick M. Ahl, Amber, Avallon, and Apollo's Singing Swan Callimachus...
- "Carnaim" in 1 Maccabees.[citation needed] Eusebius (c. 260/265–340) writes of Karneia/Karnaia, a large village in "Arabia", where a house of Job was identified...
- Cults of Apollo at Sparta: The Hyakinthia, the Gymnopaidiai, and the Karneia, Paul Åströms Forlag, Stockholm, 1992 (ISBN 91-7916-027-1) ; William Wayte...
- Notable examples of the technique include what might be a depiction of a Karneia dancer from the Tomb of the Laconians in Athenian Kerameikos. Other scenes...