Greek Religion Flashcards
What does Parker say about the Greeks’ multiple forms of deities?
“the Greeks […] appeal to a plurality of gods” for help
What does Garland say about worship?
“The Greeks didn’t worship the gods because they were good [bu because they were] powerful and extremely dangerous”
What does Lefkowitz say about the relationship between mortals and immortals?
“Man couldn’t turn to the Olympian gods for moral guidance”
What does Naidan suggest about blood sacrifice?
“Blood sacrifice was a way to stabilise the relationship between the humans and gods”
What does Emerson suggest about the community during sacrifice?
“public barbeque” therefore a social event
What does Hughes say about healing cults and votive offerings?
“play a dynamic functional role in the process of healing”
What does Parker believe about the importance of rituals?
“performing the traditional rituals was crucial”
What does Mikalson say about dedications from worshipers e.g. votive offerings or treasuries from a city…?
“dedications are tangible evidence of the deity’s existence, power and […] the honour in which the deity is held by his worshippers”
What does Dignas say about healing cults?
“There was a close personal relationship between Asclepius and his worshipper”
What does Sourvinou-Inwood suggest about family religion mixing with the polis?
“Oikos cults […] are regulated by the polis.”
What does Mikalson say about Deme worship?
“The deme was a closed community […] family and ancestors had worshipped [there] for centuries [and no other deme had] people, deities and priests as familiar”
What does Mikalson say about household worship on a polis scale- referencing the hearth at the prytaneion?
“The state […] was recognizing nationally the importance of these family deities.”
What does Price say about the relation between deme and polis worship?
“The Attic demes were […] integrated into the religious life of the Athenian state while preserving their own individuality.”
What does Zaidman say about religion and everyday life?
“inseparability of festivals from the very definition of Greek civic
life”
What does Marinatos say about Greek sanctuaries being Panhellenic?
“Sanctuaries were multidimensional institutions which served the needs of their communities and [the] city-state as a whole.”
What does Zaidman say about hero cults?
“linked to the formation of the polis”
What does Price say about religious behaviour?
“practise, not belief, was key”
What does Kindt suggest personal worship is?
“Personal religion was merely an individual interpretation of public beliefs and practises”
What does Cartledge say about worship and your position in the polis?
“Eligibility to participate in Greek sacrifice was a marker of civic status”
What does dillion say about priestesses?
“Women did serve very important goddesses such as Athena Polias”
What does Burkert say about women’s roles in religion?
“Women were almost always included in rituals and sacrifices in some way”
What does Tor say about Xenophanes’ beliefs?
“Rejects traditional conceptions of divine disclosure as theologically faulty”
What does Allen say about Socrates’ beliefs?
“Socrates’ questioning of common concepts…called traditional beliefs into question”
What does Parker suggest about philosophers and accepting the gods?
“Could not accept the riotous Olympia s of Mythology […] but they had no wish to dispense of the divine”
