Private Life: birth & marriage & death

Question 1

What does a fillet of wood over the door symbolize

Answer 1

Birth of a girl

Question 2

amphidromia

Answer 2

Formal ceremony of purification of a child

Took place on the fifth(or seventh) day after birth

Question 3

Dekate

Answer 3

Public ceremony where a child was ceremoniously acknowledged by the father and received its name
Tenth day after birth

Question 4

What were male children most often named

Answer 4

Named after paternal (and sometimes) maternal grandfather

Question 5

What did fathers have power over

Answer 5

The exposure of an infant

Question 6

How were marriages formed

Answer 6

Arranged marriages by parents

Question 7

enguesis/engue

Answer 7

Formal betrothal

Question 8

Who gave the bride away

Answer 8

The nearest male relative

Question 9

Kurios

Answer 9

Male relative

Question 10

What made a formal betrothal invalid

Answer 10

If the formal betrothal was omitted, performed by the wrong person

Question 11

What happens if the formal betrothal was invalid

Answer 11

Marriage was void and children illegitimate

Question 12

How did the ages of the bride and groom compare

Answer 12

Man was considerable older than the woman

Question 13

Prios/ pherne

Answer 13

Dowry

Property and land

Question 14

What happens to the dowry if there is a divorce

Answer 14

Remained property of the wife must be returned

Question 15

Progamia

Answer 15

Preliminary religious ceremonies that occupied the interval between the betrothal and the actual wedding

Question 16

Which season was a favorite for marrying

Answer 16

Winter

Question 17

Gamelion

Answer 17

Marriage month

Question 18

What are some lucky days for marriage

Answer 18

4th day after new moon & day of full moon

Question 19

What happened in marriage ceremonies in Athens

Answer 19

Both bride and groom washed inn water brought from the fountain Callirrhoe

Question 20

Thoine gamike

Answer 20

Wedding feast

Question 21

Where was the thoine gamike held

Answer 21

House of brides father

Question 22

What happened at the thoine gamike

Answer 22

Sacrifice was made and sesame wedding cake was eaten

Question 23

What does a wreath of olive over the door symbolize

Answer 23

Birth of a boy

Question 24

When did the weeding procession occur

Answer 24

After the wedding feast

Question 25

What happened at the wedding procession

Answer 25

The bride wearing a veil was conveyed to her future home | Bride sat in between groom and best man in chariot

Question 26

Who followed the brides chariot in the wedding procession

Answer 26

The brides mother | Crowd of revelers and flute players

Question 27

What was the job of the brides mother in the procession

Answer 27

To carry torches lit at the paternal hearth

Question 28

Paranumphos

Answer 28

The best man

Question 29

Who received the bride once the bride arrived at the home

Answer 29

The grooms mother

Question 30

Kataxusmata

Answer 30

A welcoming of the bride with a shower of fruits and sweetmeats after she was received by the grooms mother

Question 31

What did the bride and groom eat when they entered the bridal chamber

Answer 31

A quince

Question 32

Epithalamia

Answer 32

Marriage hymns

Question 33

Who sang the marriage hymns

Answer 33

The bridesmaids outside the bridal chamber

Question 34

When would the marriage ceremony be concluded

Answer 34

Day after bedding ceremony

Question 35

What occurred at the conclusion of the marriage ceremony

Answer 35

The bride, unveiled, would greet friends and relatives to receive gifts and good wishes

Question 36

What happened when a man died

Answer 36

Body was washed by the women of the family, | Dressed in white, and laid on the couch with feet to the door

Question 37

Prothesis

Answer 37

"Lying in state" Describes how the body was laid out Feet towards the door

Question 38

Obal

Answer 38

Coin which was placed in mouth of the body as a fee for Charon

Question 39

Lekuthos

Answer 39

An oil flask

Question 40

What was placed at the head of the body in death

Answer 40

The Lekuthos -oil flask-

Question 41

What was placed in the hand of the deathee

Answer 41

A melitoussa -honey cake-

Question 42

Melitoussa

Answer 42

A honey cake

Question 43

Threnodoi

Answer 43

Hired mourners

Question 44

What was placed at the door and what happened with it

Answer 44

A vessel of water | Departing guests sprinkled themselves with the water to avoid ceremonial pollution

Question 45

Ekthora

Answer 45

Actual burial

Question 46

When did the ekthora take place

Answer 46

After the day of the Prothesis | Carried through the by sunrise

Question 47

What was the first event of the ekthora

Answer 47

Body was placed on a bier and conveyed either on a car or on the shoulders of friends (men in front , women in back)

Question 48

What was the second group to follow in the ekthora

Answer 48

Hired mourners and flute players followed the bier

Question 49

What was placed in the grave with the body

Answer 49

Vases and other articles

Question 50

How many times was a dead man saluted

Answer 50

3 times by name

Question 51

What happened after the burial was complete

Answer 51

A funeral feast (perideipnon)

Question 52

perideipnon

Answer 52

Funeral feast held at closest relative to the burial

Question 53

Where were cemeteries usually placed

Answer 53

Along side public roads

Question 54

How were graves marked

Answer 54

By a mound (tumbos) Or a slab (stele) Usually with the simplest inscription required for i.d

Question 55

What was in the inscription of the buried

Answer 55

The name, fathers name, and the deme to which the deceased belonged

Question 56

Tumbos

Answer 56

A mound

Question 57

Stele

Answer 57

Slab

Question 58

Signs of Greek mourning

Answer 58

Black dress | Hair cut close