Calcea
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thumb | right The Chalkeia festival (also spelled Chalceia), the festival of Bronze-workers, was a religious festival devoted to the goddess Athena and the god Hephaestus. It was celebrated on the last day of Pyanepsion (October or November in the Attic calendar). The festival celebrated Athena and Hephaestus, in honor of both gods as patron deities of Athens, and as deities of handicrafts.
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- Instance of
- festival
- Country
- Classical Athens
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- culture
- Ancient Greece
- different from
- Chalkeia Municipal Unit
- commemorates
- Hephaestus
- month of the year
- Pyanepsion
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