CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Attic Calendar, Phallus, Panathenaic Games
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Solidarity of community: town ,tribe, cult association. Exclusivity: mysteries (not fully described to us) Panhellenic festival where community was all of greece. Participation: watching, eating, competing, revelling, processing one aspect of community togetherness we"ve already seen. Honor of dieties by celebratory side of things are emphasizing participating of honoring deities. Special participants and belonging priests who were set apart for running cult of deities, choirs (men women children) who dressed specially for it as well. Athletes trained for particular event at festivals and recruited assist with spectacles floats in processions. Initiates were special participants because of their secret knowledge of their cult. Road ways outlined specific processional group one ponit to another. Or sacred way linked city with sacntuary outside city itself. Procession gae pal in group opportunity to seen by on lookers. It wanst just about walking it but also about watching it. Staus as member of group to show it off to someone.
