Public and Private Oikos

Question 1

Oikos

Answer 1

-Household, the persons who make up the family, including servants, their possessions and the place where they live

Question 2

Structure of the Oikos

Answer 2

Kourios (master, person in authority)

      - > Wife 
     - > Minor sons 	
    - > Unmarried daughters

Question 3

Becoming an Athenian citizen

Answer 3

1. ) NAMING CEREMONY (10th day) before a witness
2. ) Son enrolls in fathers phratry (hereditary association) during the festival of Apatouria (daughters could be presented but not enrolled)

-> When 18, son would be enrolled in father’s deme (and scrutinized before a council of 500)

Question 4

Children in Greek Art

Answer 4

• Not a major subject until 5th C
• Look like scaled down adults
• In color their skin was usually white (like the women’s skin, while men are orange)
  
  • Usually seen in scenes together

Question 5

Children and burial customs

Answer 5

-Children under 3 years were usually buried differently from adults: usually inhumated (buried) in reused pots (enchytrismos), either near the houses or in special cemeteries

Question 6

Rites of passage

Answer 6

1. Separation (preliminaire)
2. Liminality (luminaire) – threshold
3. Incorporation (postliminaire)

Question 7

The Anthesteria and the passage rituals of the children:

Answer 7

• Honor of Dionysos, in Jan/Feb.
  - Social order inverted, slaves could participate

Day 1: jar-opening (pithoigia)
-At sunset, the sanctuary was open and jars containing wine from last year are carried in

Day 2: Wine jugs (choes)

- Tasting of new wine, drinking contest
- Children to taste their first jug
- Also day when doors of the houses are painted black and people chew 		buckthorn leaves to keep ghosts away
- Other sanctuaries are closed and oaths are not allowed, no businesses that 	required oaths

Day 3: The Pots (chytroi)
-Grains of all kind were boiled in a pot with honey

Question 8

Apatouria

Answer 8

Deception, apate, morelikely ‘having the same father’

• Lasted 3 days with banquets and sacrifices
  
  • On 3rd day, the male children born since the previous Apotouria were registered and young males (16 years) offered the sacrifice of their long hair

Question 9

Foundation myth of Apatouria

Answer 9

• Duel of Athenian Melanthios (the Black) and Boeotian Xanthos (the Fair) for the frontier territory of Melainai (Black Country)
• The Athenian, who was fighting instead of the old king, won by deception and became the new king of Athens – from which the false etymology of Apate (deception)

Question 10

Ephebia

Answer 10

• They are registered on the rolls of their demoi at 18 years old
• Receive a shield and spear from the state and serve on patrols, guard posts, etc.
• When 2 years are up, they are now members of the general body of citizens
• we know the mantle of ephebes was black

Question 11

Ephebe vs. Hoplite

Answer 11

Ephebe: frontier, wild territory,
lightly armed, ambush

Hoplite: plain, cultivated fields, heavily armed, fair combat

Question 12

Hunting and initiation

Answer 12

• One of the typical activities of young
• In myth, hunter heroes represent the state of life before full coming of age
• Hercules and Nemea lion
• Hunting vicious beasts = young heroes, marks transition into adulthood
• Hunter heroes who refuse transition and want to remain hunters goes against the natural order of things and are punished by the gods
  
  • Refuse marriage as well