1) Ancient Roman festival 
Anthesphoria, in antiquity, was a flower-festival celebrated in Sicily, and to a lesser extent Peloponnesus, in honor of Proserpine (or Persephone in Greek mythology). The word is derived from the Greek ἅνθος (`flower`) and φέρὰ (`I carry`), in regard the goddess was forced away by Pluto (Hades) when she was gathering flowers in the...