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Household religion: What does Oikos mean

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Household

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Household religion: Who was head of the household

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the oldest man

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Household religion: who would the head of the household make daily offerings to

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  • Zeus Ktesios
  • Zeus Herkeios
  • Apollo Agyeios
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Household religion: what was the son welcomed into

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his fathers Phratry

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Role of women: who were they priestesses for

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female goddesses

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Role of women: some examples of important women

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  • Pythia at Delphi
  • Priestess of Hera in Argos
  • priestess of Athene polias
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Role of women: Participation in cults

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  • there were a number of women only cults e.g. the Thesmophoria
  • Maenads/worshippers of Dionysus
  • also played a part in the Elusynian mysteries
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Role of women: Mid wives

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  • Birth in Greek world was perceived as a ritual requiring female priestess to ensure ritual was done right
  • Had to be above childbearing years
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Role of women: Tending the corpse and grave

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  • women principle actors in rituals concerning disposal and care of the dead
  • ritually bathed and dressed the corpse
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Deme religion: how did they differ

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each deme had its own set of religious festivals and beliefs

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Deme religion: how would rural demes differ from city demes

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rural demes are more likely to honour gods relevant to then e.g. Demeter

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Polis religion: who funded it

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the state with state funds

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Polis religion: what were prayers and worship directed to

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the welfare of the polis as a whole

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Polis religion: what did it have links to

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many similarities between polis and deme religion

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Panhellenic religion: What were the 4 main Panhellenic sites

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  • Delphi
  • Olympia
  • Nemea
  • Isthmus
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Religious Authority: what was it similar to

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political, civic and religious authority all very similar and hard to separate

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Religious Authority: who was important

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  • Priests
  • officials who supervised performance of rites
  • magistrates who organised festivals
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Priests and priestesses: who did Priests serve

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male gods

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Priests and priestesses: who did Priestesses serve

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female gods

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Priests and priestesses: what was their role

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  • to oversee rituals
  • responsible for the finances of the sanctuary’s
  • looked after the cult statue
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Priests and priestesses: how much did they get paid

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state would determine how much money there was for them

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Archons: what was an archon

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an athenian magistrate

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Priests and priestesses: Archon Basileus

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  • Main religious official of the Athenian state
  • Responsibility over religious calendar
  • Judicial authority over religious matters
  • Responsible for all sacrifices that involved ancestral cults
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Priests and priestesses: Eponymous Archon

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  • The archon after whom the year was named
  • Had authority over civic festivals
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Priests and priestesses: Polmarch

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  • war archon
  • in charge of cults relating to military affairs
  • also in charge of public funeral held in honour of Athenian war dead
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Priests and priestesses: Epimeletai

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  • oversees
  • originally they paid for processions but later the state funded them
  • four were appointed for the Eleusinian mysteries
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Impiety and pollution: Greek word for religious pollution

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Misama

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Impiety and pollution: ways of being polluted

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  • giving birth
  • being physically dirty
  • not having the gods in the right manner on the right days
  • disrespecting laws or burial
  • disrespecting someones right to asylum
  • through sex
  • attending a funeral
  • murder
  • entering home of woman who just gave birth
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Impiety and pollution: methods of purification

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  • if dirty, sprinkle water from basin in sanctuary
  • if polluted by woman giving birth you would have to wait to enter a sanctuary
  • if murder, you would undergo a ritual of purification

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