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Theology
study of religion, god, practices, rituals, etc.
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Theogony
the study of the birth of the gods or origins
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Hesiod
- poet who wrote "Works and Days" and Theogony
- started theogony with himself as a character meeting a muse who tells him the stories of the gods
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Homer
- epic poet
- wrote Iliad and Odyssey
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Iliad
- long poem about Trojan Wars
- Agamenon vs. Achilles
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Odyssey
- sequel to Iliad
- about a hero, Odyseus, returning home after the fall of Troy
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Phratry
- brotherhood
- name of the organiztion with which young boys must be registered in order to qualify for citizenship
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Sources of GR
- prose
- carving into stones
- grave goods
- poems
- paintings
- language
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Pausanias
wrote about Greek: landscape, temples, shrines
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Zeus Dodona
consulting Zeus
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Oikos
household of family
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Heifer
young female virgin cow sacrifice or offering for goddesses
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Hecatomb
slaughter 100 cattles
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Miasma
- "taint" or pollution
- connected with shed blood
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Amphidroma
ritual once child reaches the age of 10
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Apella
- boy to adult
- cutting of the hair
- end of miltary training (?)
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Apatouria
father introduces son to phratry
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Solon
- Athenian statesman
- created calendar
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Hekatombian
- Athenian first month of the year
- orginally from Hekatombaia festival
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Arrhephoria
- quaint nocturnal festival
- 2 young girls called Arrheph
- carry object of Athena, from Acropolis down bronze staircase to Aphrodite
- same way as Persephone went down to Hades
- Rite of Passage for girls (teens to adolescent)
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Kronia
- festival of Kronos
- time where slaves run the place/festival
- slaves and master eat together
- not a major festival
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Panathenaia festival
- celebration of Athena's bday @ the end of the moon
- night before festival, no moon = darkness; new moon
- hundreds of animal slaughtered
- everyone there, except old women
- annual festival, washing the old but giving goddess a new peplos
- parade w/ a ship float to carry peplos
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Arrhephoroi
- hephoroi = carrier
- myth: of the girls carrying object of Athena
- for Panathenaia festival
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Parthenon and Erechteion
- two temples of Athena
- Parthenon: more impressive, a statue made of gold and ivory
- Erechtheion: more scared, smaller, wooden statue, holy and newer / for Athena, Poseidon, and Erchtheus
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Panathenaian games and activities and prize
- chariot race
- foot race: wine
- panathalon: oil
- boxing
- music (lyre, flute, choir): silver and gold awarded
- citation of Homeric poem
- torch race
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Bacchic mysteries
myth of a society of women w/o men
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Anthesteria festival
- 3 day festival
- spring time
- 12th month Elaphêboliôn, temple open for 1 day
- "in the marshes"
- new vinage, wine is made
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