Selene was preceded that evening by the Krewe of Dionysus, whose parade was scheduled to roll on Feb. 23 but was postponed because of foul weather. That provided the men's krewe, celebrating its ...

That development came later in the 6th century BC, when the tyrant Pisistratus, who then ruled the city, established a series of new public festivals. One of these, the 'City Dionysia', a festival ...