3.1 Flashcards
What was the task of ancient Greek priests and priestesses?
to perform rituals associated with particular cults
The role of priests in conducting rituals:
Priests in Athens were not believed to possess what?
What did the priests serve?
Acoording to who?
What religious personnel were there besides priests? (2)
special religious authority
the state
Plato in Politicus
Archons and Officials
The role of priests in conducting rituals 2:
Who had particularly wide religious powers?
They had judicial authority over what?
They also had responsibility for sacrifices that involved what?
Give an example
Which two scholars were involved in the impiety debate?
The archon basileus
religious matters
ancient ancestral cults
The eleusinian mysteries
Kahrstedt (1936) and Parker (2005)
The role of priests in conducting rituals 3:
What made priests special?
According to plato, what is the first cult function?
And the second?
Which inscription reflects this?
from which century?
how?
their particular cult function with regards to a particular god/gods.
To know how to offer community worship to a god according to what the god is known to prefer.
to pray to the god on behalf of the community
the Amphiareion at Oropos
fourth
the priest offers sacrificial victims and offerings from patients looking for cures & prays over the victims
The role of priests in conducting rituals 4:
Another role of the priest was to act as a judge in which cases?
What did he have full authority to do?
Which scholar argues priests did not need to know much?
How were priesthoods filled? (3)
Cases where some ‘wrong’ was committed inside the sanctuary
issue fines of up to 5 drachmas
Chaniotis (2008)
inheritance, sortation (lot) or purschase
The connection between aristocratic families and priesthoods:
Why were priesthoods sought after by aristocratic families?
Which of the three methods of becoming a priest favoured aristocrats? (2)
Which type of priesthoods were ancient?
what were the two main priesthoods of the eleusinian mysteries?
Which family was each attatched to?
Who supplied the priestess of Athena Polias and which other priest?
they carried prestige
inheritance and purchase
inherited
the hierophant and the dadouchos (torch-bearer)
eumolpidae family and kerykes family
the Eteoboutadai, the priest of Poseidoon Erechtheus
The connection between aristocratic families and priesthoods 2:
Who did purchased priesthoods go to?
Where was this practice first attested?
An inscription from where alludes to the purchasers of the priesthood of the Kyrbantes?
Which century?
the wealthy
the greek cities of Asia Minor (Turkey)
Erythrai
late 4th
The connection between aristocratic families and priesthoods 3:
How were most priesthoods filled in Athens?
Give three examples.
What exemplifies a lot-assigned priesthood?
From which century?
Who was the first priestess of which Athena?
by lot
The priesthoods of Asclepius, Zeus Soter (male) and Athene Nike (female)
Myrrhine’s epitaph
fifth
Nike
Epitaph of Myrrhine:
It is the memorial of Who’s daughter?
The first to look after what?
Meaning of Myrrhine?
how was Myrrhine chosen?
Kallimachos’
the temple of Victory
Myrtle
by lot
The role of women in religious festivals:
Why were priestesses common?
Who were a rare example of priestesses in Rome?
What records the priestess’ role in supervising the cult?
From which Athenian Deme?
From which century?
What did male priests never do in the homeric epics?
Who never offered sacrifices?
What does the Myrrhine inscription tell us about priestesses?
What does the priestess of Athena Polias do in the Panathenaia?
Who listed the roles girls could fill in festivals?
In what?
the sex of the priest was matched to that of the god
the Vestal Virgins
an inscription about the local Thesmophorion
Piraeus
fourth
offer sacrifices
women
They had prestige
carry the peoplos during the procession
Aristophanes
Lysistrata 641-7
