2.2 Flashcards
What is religious authority? (2)
religious decision making & management of religious matters
What is impiety + translation?
asebeia, ambiguous definition but ‘incorrect’ views abt gods
Who made asebeia an offence?
fifth cent Athens
Who had religious authority in oikos?
oldest male member
Who made decisions on religious matters in the Polis?
the demos (people, ie male citizens)
What was the name for the assembly
ekklesia
Give two sacred matters discussed in the ekklesia
decisions to consult oracles or to revise sacred laws
An examle of the assembly:
when?
Who?
petitioned to accept what:
from who:
to buy what:
for building what
333Bc
Lycurgus
request
foreign merchants
land
a temple to aphrodite
The Trials of Alcibiades and Socrates
What were they found guilty of:
When was Alcibiades:
what did Alcibiades do
How do people think Gods punished the state
Who is source
When was socrates found guilty
asebeia
415BC
desacred Athens’ herms
caused its defeat in the Sicilian expedition
Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades, 19.4
399BC
Aside from religious mattes, what else did desmos make descisions on?
legal cases asociated with religion, through serving on juries
Who heard cases about damage to the sacred olive trees of Athena
What did they make decisions on
according to what
the aristocreatic Areopagus
certain religious matters eg concerning sacred property
Lysias 7
What did priests and magistrates do
enforce and manage decisions of other bodies
Archon basileus
meaning:
responsibilities? (3)
example
king ruler
religious calendar, overseeing impiety trials, sacrifices involving ancestral cults
Eleusinian Mysteries
Eponymous archon
Managed:
such as:
civic festivals
City Dionysia
Polemarch
meaning:
in charge of:
ecaple:
oversaw:
war archon
military cults
Artemis Agrotera, battle sacrifices
festivcal commemorating athenian victory over persion, marathon 490
Epimeletai
meaning
appointed how
for what
example
overseers
individually
particular festivals
panathenaia
Kahrstedt
year
argues
1936
State officials had to be present for Polis sacrifices to be Valid, priest alone didn’t have this power
Parker
year
modification
agreement
2006
priests and magistrates both had Polis sacrifice authority, Priests as well as officials were voted honours by assembly for sacrifices
Priests did not have exclusive authority to sacrifice for state
Demothenes
was:
performed:
a magistrate
sacrifices
What made asebeia an offense
mechanism for (2)
Diopeithes Decree of 432
settling political scores & removing undesirables
Which two scholars emphasised that asebeia trials maintained social order
how:
example
Trampedach (2001) & Eidenow (2010)
defined boundaries of acceptable behaviour
women charged in 4th cent for deviant behaviours (magic)
Who said asebeia used to describe threats to community
what else did he say
Bowden (2015)
it is a tool for purifying community
