Vocab

Question 1

Genesia

Answer 1

Festival to stave off vengeful spirits that felt neglected.

Question 2

Anthesteria

Answer 2

Athenian festival to Dionysus to celebrate Spring

Question 3

Pithoigia

Answer 3

First day of the Anthesteria. Offer libations of last year’s wine

Question 4

Choes

Answer 4

Second day of the Anthesteria. Partying. The ritual queen of Athens does a ritual symbolizing a marriage to Dionysus, may include sex. 14 Athenian matrons are witnesses

Question 5

Chytroi

Answer 5

Third day of the Anthesteria. More partying. Fruits are offered to Hermes Cthonois

Question 6

Katabasis

Answer 6

Descending into Hades

Question 7

Necromancy

Answer 7

Performing rituals to contact the dead and receive guidance.

Question 8

Ajax

Answer 8

Ajax the greater. Greek Hero in the Trojan War. Rescues the body of Achilles. Dies when Oddyseus is given Achilles armor instead of him.

Question 9

Oidipous at Kolonos

Answer 9

Middle of the Oedipus trilogy. Oedipus dies on sacred ground in Athens as stated in the prophecy, blessing it.

Question 10

oikist as hero

Answer 10

Cults to the founders of cities

Question 11

Heterogeneity

Answer 11

Something Heterogenous is distinctly nonuniform

Question 12

Bomos

Answer 12

An elevated place for sacrifice

Question 13

Consumption (Ritual)

Answer 13

Eating a piece of the sacrificed animal

Question 14

Destruction (Ritual)

Answer 14

Burning the bones/fat of the animal so that the god can join you in the feast

Question 15

Pythagorean Pure

Answer 15

The strictest Pythagoreans. Strictly vegetarians. Wouldn’t associate with ANYONE involved in meat.

Question 16

Mageiros

Answer 16

Cook/Butcher. Never handles wild animals because you don’t eat/sacrifice wild animals. You hunt dangerous animals because they are dangerous, you eat domestic animals because that is their job.

Question 17

Hupotkuptein

Answer 17

When the sacrificial animal nods it’s consent to being a sacrifice.

Question 18

Sphageus

Answer 18

Slayer-denouncer. Someone that protests a sacrifice

Question 19

Sacralization

Answer 19

Making something sacred

Question 20

Cult of Asclepius

Answer 20

God of the healing part of medicine. Primary sanctuary in Epidaurus.

Question 21

Healing Sanctuary

Answer 21

A sanctuary you can receive divine healing, most famous is the sanctuary of Asclepius in Epidaurus

Question 22

Pergamon

Answer 22

Powerful Ionian Polis

Question 23

Muesis

Answer 23

Closing of the eyes. When you stop taking in outward data and start learning the inner truths. Associated with the second initiation of Bacchic Mysteries

Question 24

Epopteia

Answer 24

1 year after initiation into the Eleusian mysteries you can return and enter the next level, Epopteia. You are shown the divine objects

Question 25

Cabiri

Answer 25

Group of mysterious cthonic gods worshiped at Samothrace. Have their own mystery cult

Question 26

Superstition

Answer 26

The most extreme form of belief. Believing the gods wish you harm so normal ritual becomes somber instead of the happy occasion it should be

Question 27

Orphics

Answer 27

Initiates in the Orphic Mysteries

Question 28

Orphic Gold Leaves

Answer 28

Series of inscribed gold leaves detailing the Orphic Mysteries found in tombs