ABSTRACT
Naea, Greek competitive festival. Celebrated (perhaps in the late summer or early autumn of the first year of every Olympiad) in honour of Zeus Naios at Dodona, site of the oldest Greek oracle, the Naea included a full athletic programme, a chariot race (at least), and dramatic competition. Already able to draw competitors such as King ptolemy I of Egypt and his wife berenice I (chariot victors in the early third century), it was included among the sacred crown games about one hundred years later (? 192).
