We weren't sure how we were going to celebrate the Lenaia, as we're still unpacking from our move and much of our ritual gear is still in boxes.  

Watching a movie and drinking wine sounds like an excellent idea.  I was just saying yesterday that it had been a while since I've seen "Troy".  I hate that they left the Gods out of that film, but I love Eric Bana's Hector!    And tomorrow night the old Clash of the Titans!  

So, yeah, a little incense, a little libation... I've got out an oil lamp for Hestia.  So, yeah, I guess I'll go take a bath and get ready for the Lenaia!

Just out of curiosity, what would such a theater consist of ?

So, it is as an amphitheatre then…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_zoroastrian_festival

The Hellenes were long aware of "the philosopher," Zarathustra (Zoroaster) and relations between the Persian cult and Hellenic cults were perhaps the first clear instance of religious intolerance, first on the Persian side, and, in retaliation, by the Hellenes following Alexander.

It has had a vast and much-ignored influence on the Abrahamic religions even has it left quite a legacy in the Graeco-Roman world.  

It's a fascinating example of how religious monism can be dealt with by a religion that's originally and terminally monotheist for all that it exploits dualism in historical time.  The "gods" of the ancient Vedic and Gathic documents are related, the Indian gods getting turned into "devils" in the Persian reformulation of the Indo-Aryan religion that they once shared.  It's hard to read anything about it without being struck by just how much "theological" influence it once had and, indirectly, still exerts.

There are perhaps 150,000 worshippers left, contemptible in numbers, as Gandhi said, but incomparable in accomplishments.  How a small religion survives--or doesn't--is worth thinking about.