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vocab Flashcards

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Hiereia

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a Greek priestess

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Pantheon

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a group of gods and godesses

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Mantis

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a prophet, seer or soothsayer

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Ergistini

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1female weevers responsible for making the Peplos

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Peplos

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Greek dress made of a long tube of fabric

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Pythia

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priestess of Apollo also known as the ‘Delphic Oracle’

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Religous pollution

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state of uncleanness caused by many actions that offended the gods and bared individuals from religious festivals until removed by cleansing ritual

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Pynx

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the hill on which the Athenian Assembly met (place of the Thesmophoria)

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Maenad

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female worshipper of Dionysus (also known as a Bacchant)

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Ekstasis

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experience of being someone other than youself

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Sybyl

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prophetess

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Sibyblline books

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books held in Rome full of phrophecies

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Quindecemviri

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( 15 men) keepers of the Sibylline books

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Univira

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Roman women who has only been married once

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Plebeian class

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commoners in the Roman world

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Pudicita

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female sexual modesty

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didactic

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something that is meant to teach or instruct

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titan

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generation of gods before Zeus and the other olympian gods

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xenia

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hospitality given unconditionally to a traveller, involving the giving of an help needed

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patrician

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noble class

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Sabine

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person belonging to the Sabine race

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kyrios

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male head of the house in Ancient Greece

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exposure

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practice of leaving unwanted babies outside the city to die

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dowry

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amount of money paid to a prospective groom by the brides familiy

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kyria

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wife of the kyrios

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wetnurse

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woman who looks after and breastfeeds other women’s children

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syssition

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communal mess hall in which spartan warriors dined

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paterfamillies

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male head of a Roman household

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bulla

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lucky charm in Roman world

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cum manu

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with hand marriage

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sine manu

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without hand marriage

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materfamillias

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mother of roman household

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coemptio

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wedding ceremony of a cum manu marriage

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confarreatio

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traditional patrician wedding

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usus

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wedding ceremony pf a sine manu marriage

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pronuba

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Roman citizen woman who has only been married once

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lares

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household family gods

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Janus

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god of transitions

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omen

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sign from the gods

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parthenos

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unmarried virgin Greek girl

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nymphe

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married Athenian woman without child

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gyne

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married athenian with child

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stele

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gravestone

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andron

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mens socialising room

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kleros

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houshold farm in sparta

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matrona

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married Roman woman

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vilica

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female slaves responsible for managing household

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lena

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female roman brothel keeper

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sanctuary

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area of sacred land around a temple

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pontifex maximus

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.cheif priest of Roman religion

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boule

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council of 500 Athenian men who decided what issues to be discussed in the assembly

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senate

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Rome’s central governing body

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magistrate

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elected polotiician in Rome

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amazonomachy

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mythological battle against the Amazons

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catalogue

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a long list that features in epic poetry to name warriors in an army or boats in a fleet

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aristeia

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scene in an epic poem in which a great warrior fights with exceptional courage

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Hellas

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greek name for the greek world

Classical civilisation (17 decks)

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