CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Panathenaic Games, Greco-Roman Mysteries, Bacchanalia
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Contrast with the rest of the course, women have an important role in religion. These women would get rations and part of the sacrificial meat, etc. Female goddesses needed female attendants, priestesses looked after temples like women looked after the home. Sometimes dates were given by the year in a reign of a priestess. There were many different places a woman could take a religious job throughout her life and in different cults. Women would be at the front of religious processions. Gentilician priesthood: a priesthood restricted to a particular family or tribe. Priests of athena polias or poseidon erechtheus are restricted to the eteoboutdai genos. Story of the eteoboutdai being decedents of the original priest leader boutes (brother of erechtheus) Democratic priesthoods could be given by inheritance, allotment, election / appointment, or purchase. Even in the democratic priesthoods only the people of certain standing and wealth would be eligible.
