Part 1 Exam 2 Flashcards
Mothers are associated with mortality and are the chief mourner as seen with
Thetis and Achilles
Women and dirt; death as polluting ____
miasma
How do women act during ritual lamentation
They raise their arms, tear their hair, beat their breasts, and create lacerations while men are often more restrained to just outstretched hands
Lekythoi
Offering of tomb scenes are depicted on funerary vases
What were females identified with
the body, life cycle, and impurity
T/F women were perceived to have a lack of emotional control
True
What were most public venues for women’s authority associated with
religious activity
Kanephoros
sacraficial procession
Citizens, we will begin to say a few useful words for the polis. which makes sense, for it reared me in splendor. when I was seven years old straight away I was a ritual weaver for Athena. Then wearing a yellow gown, I played the bear at the rites of Brauron; and I once carried the basket as a beautiful girl, wearing a necklace of figs.
Chorus of older women in Lysistrata by Aristophanes’
Priesthood was a _____ position
temporary
What did priesthood result in for women
public authority; political influence
Thesmophoria
State-sponsored women’s only festival
T/F Thesmophoria was a subversion of social order
yes
During Thesmophoria, all public business ceased and women were
appointed to oversee the festival
What was Thesmophoria celebrating
Demeter and Persephone
Lysistrata was the first
comic female protagonist
Scene 1 Lysistrata: greek women were used as a ______ not of the polis
politics
Lysistrata:
Were males suspicious of the Greek women’s activities when they were alone?
yes
Lysistrata:
Who was the manliest of women
Lampito
Lysistrata:
“Grab the brim, _______, you and all the others. someone repeat for all the rest of you the words I say– that way you’ll pledge your firm allegiance: no man, no husband, no lover….
Lampito
Who responds to Lysistrata in Scene 1?
Calonice (her chief)
…you get near me with a stiff prick. O ______, my knees are getting weak”
Lysistrata
Speaker: Calonice
What is the main point of Lysistrata Scene 2
Gender conflict as a framing device, symbolizing the war between Athens and Sparta
“Come on, _______, let’s hurry there as fast as we can go up to the city. We’ll see these logs down in a circle, stack them up so we keep them bottled up, those women who’ve combined to do this. then with our own hands, we’ll set alight a single fire and, as we all agreed in the vote we took, we’ll burn them all, beginning first with _______ wife.”
Philurgus
Lycon’s
Fire and water represent what in Lysistrata
male and female elements in ancient medicine
Who wins the battle of elements in Aristophanes Lysistrata?
women
What is the main point of Scene 3 in Lysistrata
fighting choruses introduced a conflict between the magistrate and Lysistrata
What does Scene 3 do?
challenge the Homeric adage that war is a man’s concern
We men ourselves share in the blame for this. we teach our wives their free and easy lives, and so intrigues come flowering out from them. (who speaks and to whom?)
Magistrate to Lysistrata
“you’d (who?) have been smacked if you had not been quiet and held your tongue”
Lysistrata; speak: magistrate
So there I am at home, saying nothing. Then You’d (who?) tell us of another project, “how can you carry out a scheme like that?” It’s foolish. Immediately He’d frown and say to me (who?) “If you don’t spin your thread, you’ll get a major beating on your head. War is men’s concern”
Magristate; Lysistrata
“and how will you (who?) find the power to stop so many violent disturbances?”
Lysistrata (speaker Magristate)
What does Lysistrate compare winning the war to
making wool
What happens during Scene 4 in Lysistrata
Women start to desert the acropolis using excuses
“well then, I’ll (who?) leave here, when it seems all right. But now I’m under Oath.”
“At least lie down with me (who?) a little while”
Myrrhine
Cinesias
“you’d like to? then, my little ______, lie down right here.”
You (who?) must be joking– in front of our dear baby child?
Myrrhine
Cinesias
What does the quarrel between Magistrate and Lysistrata represent
the larger theme of the battle between sexes
T/F Lysistrata proves the democracy is a fragile institution
yes
When men harm the family, through war and injury, who must step in
women
Explain how Greece is a closed society
earthborn idea
citizenship laws
anti-immigration
Explain how Rome is an open society
Assimilation of other culture
religious tolerance
promotes immigration (dual citizenship)
