religion

Question 1

arrephoroi

Answer 1

young girls selected to live on the acropolis that year
set up the loom

Question 2

ergastinai

Answer 2

a group of experienced athenian women weavers

Question 3

what day is the most important day in the great panathenaia

Answer 3

day 6 : all-night torch race,procession and sacrifice

Question 4

what was embroidered on the peplos

Answer 4

gigantomachy

Question 5

day one of the thesmorphia and what was symbolic about it

Answer 5

worshippers set up temporary shelters near the phyx(where athenian assembly met)
significant as women symbolically took over the city

Question 6

day 2 of thesmophoria

Answer 6

worshippers fast and sat on the ground,covering themselves in ashes which was an act of mourning,re-enacting Demeter’s grief after losing her daughter

Question 7

day 3 of thesmophoria

Answer 7

worshippers prayed for blessings related to fertility-for children,future families and bountiful crops

Question 8

what would happen to piglets before and during the Thesmophoria

Answer 8

piglets would be cast down into a chasm and their decomposed remains were retrieved during the festival.
chasm represented the underworld and the piglets represented persephone journey into the dark and back into the light

Question 9

what would happen to the piglets remains in the thesmophoria

Answer 9

remains would be mixed with corn seed and placed on the altar and were later scattered to ensure a good harvest

Question 10

how was patricia pudicitia worshipped

Answer 10

the cult worshipped the goddess in a shrine in the forum boarium
cult was dedicated to the personification of female virtue
only for noble,univirae women

Question 11

why were univirae the only women allowed to worship the goddess

Answer 11

to remind politicians and business man in the FB of the power of feminine virtue.
They hand only been married once and were seen as chaste

Question 12

what kind of cult was the thesmophoria

Answer 12

a mystery cult

Question 13

who was bona dea

Answer 13

earth and fertility goddess referred to as fauna

Question 14

what was the festival of bona dea

Answer 14

an annual ritual celebrates on May 1 in the middle of festival Flora
ritual took place in private in the house of a consul’s wife or mother
no men allowed
ritual presided over by vestal virgins and the woman of the house
blood sacrifice of a piglet

Question 15

day one of athenian preparation of the dead

Answer 15

Who:direct female relative and/or women over 60
Where:household of the deceased
How:Wash body,dress wounds,anoint with perfume,clothed in white shroud,garlanded with flowers,coin in mouth

Question 16

day 2 of athenian preparation of the dead

Answer 16

What: A wake was held - the body laid out in the house & a feast is held in their honour. Women of the house engage in exaggerated ritual mourning.
Where: Deceased person’s house.
Who: Friends & relatives of the deceased (men and women), sometimes professional mourners.

Question 17

day three of athenian preparation for the dead

Answer 17

What: body carried in procession (ekphora) with sad music and women singing mourning songs. Body buried, sometimes with grave goods.
Libations poured (to “feed” the shade), often an animal sacrifice was made (meat eaten at home afterwards - a second feast).
Where: procession from house to burial site
Who: friends & relatives of the deceased (men and women), sometimes professional mourners.