Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Odysseus, Aristocracy
5 Feb 2015
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Gifting was a method of boasting wealth. If they can bury wealth it shows disposable income. If you want something from the gods, you need to give them something. Not much to it, only a stadium and ash layer. When you dedicate something, you demonstrate your wealth and status. Public naming of buildings, etc: tripod sizes increased over time, evidence in homer, as tripods were trophies. Left image is on the leg of a tripod: two figures fighting over the tripod. Feasting where meat was sacrificed, eaten, etc. was a measure of status. Boulouterion made their city council there. White space on the map is potentially ashed area. Ash altar was probably there and was washed away. Smoke rising either fed or pleased the gods because they were up in the sky/heavens. Closed off area, tripods, victors statues, etc. Pelops is not a god: a mortal that died, he is a cultic hero.
