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women and religion - Greece, pnyx - the hill on which the athenian…
women and religion - Greece
the great panathenaia
4 - equestrian competitions
5 - strength, sailing and dancing contests between men of Athens' different tribes
3 - mens athletic competitions
6 - all-night torch race, procession and sacrifice
2 - boys athletic competitions
7 - chariot and boat races
1 - poetry reciting and musical competitions
8 - prize giving
8 DAYS
every year people of athens present olive wood statue of Athena in the erechtheon (temple on the ACROPOLIS) with a new PEPLOS
peplos - woven by ergastinai on large loom which was set up by arrephoroi under supervision of chief priestess of Athena
women could not compete but could watch
peplos colours - saffron and purple (most expensive colours)
peplos paraded through the streets on 6th day during the procession. and then dedicated to the goddess on the acropolis
panathenaia every year, but GREAT PANATHENAIA EVERY 4 YEARS
the thesmophoria
exclusively for married women
held in autumn and honoured Demeter
festival held to ensure success of the next year's harvest
lasted 3 days
1 - worshippers set up temporary shelters outside the pnyx - significant because for the duration of the festival the women took over the city
2 - worshippers would fast for this day and sit on the ground and cover themselves in ashes - ritual act of mourning + reenacts deters grief at the loss of her daughter
3 - worshippers would pray for blessings related to fertility - for children, future families and bountiful crops
chasm represented underworld and piglets represented persephone's journey into the darkness and back into the light
some time before the festival, piglets would be cast down into a chasm and their decomposed remains retrieved during the festival
remains would be mixed with corn seed and. placed on the altar. later they would be scattered on the fields to ensure a good harvest
the thesmophoria was a mystery cult (religious worship only open to those who had gone a special rite of passage and no one else knew the details of the cult) - we know no details for certain.
worship of Dionysus
Dionysus - god of ecstasies - stepping outside oneself
women would go out in the countryside and become intoxicated and sing and dance - maenads
also a mystery cult
MAENAD CUP
490-480BC
burial rites
body garlanded with flowers and coin placed in mouth - pay for bridge in journey to underworld
on third day after death - body carried in a procession known and the EKPHORA. processed began at deceased house and ended at burial site. people would sing mourning songs and sombre music played
anointed in perfumes and oils and clothed in a white burial shroud
wash the body
family then held wake - body laid out in house and friends and fam pay respects
only direct relatives or women over 60
females - lamentation (excessive show of grief) - cut hair short, dress in tattered clothing, dirty themselves with ashes, wail, beat their breasts and scratch their cheeks until they bleed
when relative died, woman would prapare body for burial
when reached burial site body was laid in the ground and sometimes buried with valuable objects
after burial the mourners would pour libations and make food offerings and then offer an ami,alsarifice and meat taken back home for feast to honour the dead
pnyx - the hill on which the athenian assembly met
maenads - female worshipper of Dionysus