Athens Temple

Question 1

What did temples allow?

Answer 1

Everyday people to speak to the gods

Question 2

The Pythia at Delphi?

Answer 2

Was a woman - the Oracle

Question 3

What did temples get?

Answer 3

Money

Question 4

What were temples?

Answer 4

Homes to the gods

Question 5

What else did temples allow?

Answer 5

Offerings to heroes

Question 6

What happened in a temple?

Answer 6

The temenos (main building); spring/grove/cave outside; only priests and priestesses allowed inside the temenos; important groups were encouraged to take care of temple (important job); festivals; meat at festivals.

Question 7

What were given as offerings?

Answer 7

Animals; statues of young men (kouroi) and women (korai) were dedicated to deities as evidence of piety/personal stuff; gold;

Question 8

Different types of columns, in order?

Answer 8

Doric (lines); Ionic (curvy); Corinthian (elaborate)

Question 9

Temple layout?

Answer 9

3 steps up; peristyle (perimeter); pronaos at the back; cella/naos on inside; statues at the back; columns in antis; symmetrical; opisthodomos (fake porch for balance); times the tops by 2 and add 1 to make the sides.

Question 10

Column layout?

Answer 10

Base, shaft, capital

Question 11

What way did the temples face?

Answer 11

East to west so the priests could perform tasks facing east (where sun rose)

Question 12

What happened to the statue?

Answer 12

It was fed, clothed, sacrificed to, paraded around and worshipped

Question 13

What were statues typically made of?

Answer 13

Wood/stone

Question 14

Each god had?

Answer 14

1 day of worship

Question 15

Cthonic means…

Answer 15

…earth!

Question 16

What was the frieze?

Answer 16

The mural around the top of the temple

Question 17

Sacrifice?

Answer 17

The eternal hearth only out if a bad thing happened; purchase bull; prepare the ribbons on head and paint horns; lead to temple by owner, handmaiden with a basket of barley and a knife underneath, a flute player; dress in handmade garlands; drop water on head and if nod it accepts its fate; priest says prayer, takes knife, walks behind animal, other person clubs animal round head, priest slits throat

Question 18

What happens to the animal pieces?

Answer 18

Blood drenched over alter after collected in a bowl; meat carved in 3 ways: 1, thigh bones wrapped in fat and burned on altar - smoke nourished gods; 2, stomach slit, entrails fall out - priest interprets message; 3, rest of meat boiled in vats - shared with everyone, no one really got meat before