Panathenaea is a festival in honour of the city’s patron deity, Athena. It was a civic and religious festival that was held in Ancient Athens and was founded by Theseus and Erichthonius. The tremendous festival involved a procession culminating a large animal sacrifice and feasting. Dipylon Gate was in the northern part of the city and where the parade would start. They would walk through the Agora to the Acropolis and then into the Erechtheion. At the final destination a human-scale statue of Athena would be bathed and dressed in a new embroidered peplos which had been dyed in saffron as a gift to her. The peplos was a body length garment, for Panathenaea some working maidens from Athenian aristocratic families were carefully chosen to help
