Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Communal Meal, Heroon, Lefkandi

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Bernd Steinbock

Document Summary

King is hades, brother or zeus and poseidon. Explanation for the seasons: persephone lives in underworld 1/4 year with hades, her mother demeter mourns her therefore no food. Heroes/heroines: extraordinary mortal men/women who receive cultic order at his her tomb (heroon, founders of a colony, there was a heroon found at lefkandi. Procession to alter with sacrificial baskets --> circle delineates sacred from profane -- > purification of sacrifices --> prayer/wish. Barley thrown on animal (purify) --> slaughter --> blood on alter --> skinned and butcher animal --> inner organs roasted first --> bones, fat, small pieces of meat burned for god --> roasting meat for people --> communal feast. Oracle: a person (like a priestess) thru who a god speaks thru. Famous sites: delphi, didyma, claros all for apollo and dodona for zeus. The pythia, the priestess, sit on the tripod (gap in the earth with spoke and stuff) Priestess is in a trance, she just babbles stuff.