vocab

Question 1

Hiereia

Answer 1

a Greek priestess

Question 2

Pantheon

Answer 2

a group of gods and godesses

Question 3

Mantis

Answer 3

a prophet, seer or soothsayer

Question 4

Ergistini

Answer 4

1female weevers responsible for making the Peplos

Question 5

Peplos

Answer 5

Greek dress made of a long tube of fabric

Question 6

Pythia

Answer 6

priestess of Apollo also known as the ‘Delphic Oracle’

Question 7

Religous pollution

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Pynx

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Maenad

Answer 9

female worshipper of Dionysus (also known as a Bacchant)

Question 10

Ekstasis

Answer 10

experience of being someone other than youself

Question 11

Sybyl

Answer 11

prophetess

Question 12

Sibyblline books

Answer 12

books held in Rome full of phrophecies

Question 13

Quindecemviri

Answer 13

( 15 men) keepers of the Sibylline books

Question 14

Univira

Answer 14

Roman women who has only been married once

Question 15

Plebeian class

Answer 15

commoners in the Roman world

Question 16

Pudicita

Answer 16

female sexual modesty

Question 17

didactic

Answer 17

something that is meant to teach or instruct

Question 18

titan

Answer 18

generation of gods before Zeus and the other olympian gods

Question 19

xenia

Answer 19

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

Question 20

patrician

Answer 20

noble class

Question 21

Sabine

Answer 21

person belonging to the Sabine race

Question 22

kyrios

Answer 22

male head of the house in Ancient Greece

Question 23

exposure

Answer 23

practice of leaving unwanted babies outside the city to die

Question 24

dowry

Answer 24

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

Question 25

kyria

Answer 25

wife of the kyrios

Question 26

wetnurse

Answer 26

woman who looks after and breastfeeds other women's children

Question 27

syssition

Answer 27

communal mess hall in which spartan warriors dined

Question 28

paterfamillies

Answer 28

male head of a Roman household

Question 29

bulla

Answer 29

lucky charm in Roman world

Question 30

cum manu

Answer 30

with hand marriage

Question 31

sine manu

Answer 31

without hand marriage

Question 32

materfamillias

Answer 32

mother of roman household

Question 33

coemptio

Answer 33

wedding ceremony of a cum manu marriage

Question 34

confarreatio

Answer 34

traditional patrician wedding

Question 35

usus

Answer 35

wedding ceremony pf a sine manu marriage

Question 36

pronuba

Answer 36

Roman citizen woman who has only been married once

Question 37

lares

Answer 37

household family gods

Question 38

Janus

Answer 38

god of transitions

Question 39

omen

Answer 39

sign from the gods

Question 40

parthenos

Answer 40

unmarried virgin Greek girl

Question 41

nymphe

Answer 41

married Athenian woman without child

Question 42

gyne

Answer 42

married athenian with child

Question 43

stele

Answer 43

gravestone

Question 44

andron

Answer 44

mens socialising room

Question 45

kleros

Answer 45

houshold farm in sparta

Question 46

matrona

Answer 46

married Roman woman

Question 47

vilica

Answer 47

female slaves responsible for managing household

Question 48

lena

Answer 48

female roman brothel keeper

Question 49

sanctuary

Answer 49

area of sacred land around a temple

Question 50

pontifex maximus

Answer 50

.cheif priest of Roman religion

Question 51

boule

Answer 51

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

Question 52

senate

Answer 52

Rome's central governing body

Question 53

magistrate

Answer 53

elected polotiician in Rome

Question 54

amazonomachy

Answer 54

mythological battle against the Amazons

Question 55

catalogue

Answer 55

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

Question 56

aristeia

Answer 56

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

Question 57

Hellas

Answer 57

greek name for the greek world