Week 6

Question 1

Sanctuaries

Answer 1

2 main parts: a boundary and an outdoor altar
Votive offerings (treasures, columns, monuments)
Space for the worship of several other gods and heroes

Question 2

City sanctuaries

Answer 2

Sanctuaries under control by a single city (Athens acropolis, sanctuary of Apollo, corinth)

Question 3

Extra-mural city sanctuaries

Answer 3

-using religion alters as a border and control

Question 4

Temple of Zeus at olympia

Answer 4

• built in 468 bc
• depicts the moment before the chariot race where Pelops will defeat king Oinomais of Elis and gain the hand of the daughter Hippodamia (he wins though trickery-bribes the servant Myrtilus to replace oenomaus chariot lynch pin with wax that will melt and kill the king)
• Basically a myth but also shows the most important aspect of the temple, the Olympic games
• observed by Pausanias, 2nd AD geographer

Question 5

Libation

Answer 5

A drink poured out as an offering to a deity

Question 6

Sacrifice

Answer 6

Offering to the gods, like animals

Question 7

Temenos

Answer 7

A piece of land set aside or cut off from everyday use and assigned as a special domain from the veneration of a temporal or a god

Question 8

Altar

Answer 8

Place of offering to a dedicated god

Question 9

Panathenaic festival

Answer 9

Multi day festival where the Athenians honor Athena
Includes competitions, cultural events and religious ceremonies

Question 10

Centaurmachy

Answer 10

Battle between the lapiths and the centaurs. Fought at the wedding of King pirithous and hippodamia.
- centaurs were invited but tried to kidnap Hippodamia, defeated then expelled
- shown at the temple of Zeus at olympia
- Greek superiority over foreign powers

Question 11

Amazonomachy

Answer 11

Battle between the greeks and the amazonians
- unruly women not commanded by men and seen as a threat on the acropolis

Question 12

Pythia

Answer 12

High priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi
- maiden of noble birth who wore a girls dress in later life