Lampadephoria (Λαμπαδηφορία) and Lampadedromia (Λαμπαδηδρομία), or simply Lampas (Λαμπάς), was an ancient Greek type of torch race. It was also called λαμπαδοῦχος ἀγών (torch-bearer competition), λαμπαδοῦχος δρόμος (torch-bearer race) and ἑορτὴ λαμπάδος (torch festival).
Lampadephoria (Λαμπαδηφορία) and Lampadedromia (Λαμπαδηδρομία), or simply Lampas (Λαμπάς), was an ancient Greek type of torch race. It was also called λαμπαδοῦχος ἀγών (torch-bearer competition), λαμπαδοῦχος δρόμος (torch-bearer race) and ἑορτὴ λαμπάδος (torch festival).
The race was run usually on foot, but sometimes it was also on horses by ephebi (a Greek youth entering manhood). The torches were of two kinds—one a sort of candlestick and the other one of a more conventional kind. There were different methods of the race.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).