Priests and Priestesses

Question 1

Arrephoroi

Answer 1

Two maidens chosen each year to reside on the acropolis and to weave the peplos for Athena Polias and tend to her sacred olive tree

Question 2

Grinder

Answer 2

the name for girls who would ground the meal for cakes that would be offered to Athena on her altar

Question 3

foundress bear

Answer 3

there was a sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. Here a festival would take place that involved girls dressing up like little bears. All athenian girls had to partake in this festival before they could marry

Question 4

basket bearer

Answer 4

girls who would carry baskets, probably containing sacrificial implements at occasions such as Panathenaic procession

Question 5

loutrides/ plyntredies

Answer 5

washing girls whose duty it was to ritually scrub the olive wood statue of Athena in the sea