2.1(b) Flashcards
What is a Polis?
city-state comprising of city and surrounding controlled territory
Panhellenic meaning?
All Greeks
What did Greeks have in common (4)?
language, culture, social norms, religious ideas
community issues covered by Polis (4)?
Fertility, Good health, Economic prosperity, Protection from danger
Athenian cult sites
what century?
Agricultural (2):
Locationi of each:
Human (2):
location:
5th
Sanctuary - Dionysus (wine), Eleusinion - Demeter (grain)
south slope of Acropolis, north slope
Sanctuary - Aphrodite, Thesmophoria - Demeter
near marketplace
Good health
until 5th cent, athenians looked to what for health (2)?
had altar of Athena … on Acropolis
When was plague?
Who and in what book said existing sanctuaries did not offer enough protection:
in what year did they turn to Asclepius:
from:
two sanctuaries for him where:
local gods, physician heroes
Hygeia
431-423
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.47.4
420/19
Epidauros
south slope of Acropolis, Piraeus
Economic prosperity
Athena … looked after the city’s crafts:
with:
who had a temple called:
located:
In which quarter:
Chalkeia meaning:
frequency:
Evidence:
Ergane
Hephaistos
Hephaisteion
hill west of Agora
“Potters Quarter” - Ceramicus
Festival of Bronze
annual
incription of dedications to Atherna by artisans (even washerwomen)
Protection from danger
Athena… was national patroness:
which iconography shows her as a warrior:
How did Athenians show gratitude (2)?
Athena… was huge Acropolis statue:
paid from by spoils from which battle and year:
2 buildings built to comemorate what:
Polias
Panathenaic Amphora
votive offerings and temples
Promachos
Marathon (490)
Parthenon and Erechtheion, Xerxes defeat 480-479
Who said Polis level worship had a community forging role due to its inclusivity, and the oversight of the gods made them into a kind of large family?
Mikalson (2010)
Examples of Panhellenic events and sites (4):
Eleusinian Mysteries, Asclepeion at Epidauros, Dodona, Panathenaia
Why wasn’t Panhellenic religion accessible to most Greeks most of the time
involved travel
