Apellai

This article is about Ancient Greek festival. For the Spartan assembly sometimes called the apella, see Spartan Assembly.

The Apellai (Ancient Greek: ἀπέλλαι), was an ancient annual family festival of the Northwest Greeks, at least at Delphi, similar to the Ionian Apaturia. The festival was apparently spread by the Dorians as inferred by the use of the month name Apellaios in various Dorian localities. Sacrificial animals, called apellaia, seem to have been offered at the Apellai on the occasion of a youth becoming an adult. It is thought to have been a festival of Apollo.

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