PRIESTS AND RITUALS

Question 1

responsibilites of priests

Answer 1

-prepare sacrficial animals and butcher them
-medical care
-fudnign and care for sanctuary
-read entrails
medical care

Question 2

what did the priests get

Answer 2

-front row seats and dionysus theatre
-soemtimes paid but little
-public image and prestige
-gods favour maybe

Question 3

heriditary priesthoods, how long did they last and two examples

Answer 3

lifelong, elusinian mysteries priests and athena polias in Athens

Question 4

how long did priests by lot last

Answer 4

annual changeover

Question 5

archon basileus, responsibilities

Answer 5

king archon, religious calander, jucidial matters, sacrfices in ancestral cults

Question 6

eponymous archon responsibilites

Answer 6

year named after him, authority over civic festivals

Question 7

polemarch (archon) reponsibilities

Answer 7

war archon, cults relating to military affairs, funerals for ethenian war

Question 8

epimeletai (archon) responsibility

Answer 8

over seers, appointed for individual fetsivals

Question 9

role of women in relgious rituals and main example

Answer 9

priestesses and cults, Panathenia girls offered cakes and carried baskets of sacrficial implements

Question 10

role of women in the thesmophoria festival

Answer 10

ritual burial of piglets as fertilizer for demeter harvest

Question 11

what myth is the reason that the gods are given thigh bones wrapped in fat from sacrifice

Answer 11

prometheus myth from hesiods theogany

Question 12

what happened in a greek blood sacrifice

Answer 12

-participants clean, animals guilded and ribbons, animal lead to altar with flute incese and basket of grain or cake, fire lit on the altar, partcipants take handful of grain and animal forced to nod, grain thrown into fire, gods given meat, entrails read and meat eaten