Classical Studies 3310F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Attica, Kanephoros, Aphrodite Urania
4 Apr 2017
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Important events: definition and recognition through ritual activity. Social prominence: participation in public ritual gave them a social prominence that they did not already have. Religious festivals, processions and cults: worshippers and officials. The only role that they have in public civic life. All social classes: worship together, only a few festivals are restricted to citizen women. Aristophanes suggest that girls move through the stages: four are chosen every year as arrephoroi for athena and aphrodite. Some of them lived on the acropolis for that year to carry sacred objects whenever needed. Thought that only girls of noble families do this. They help to weave this cloth that is draped over athena: an aletris. She is the one that grinds meal in sacred mills to make sacrificial cakes: artemis in the brauronia. Held in brauron on the east coast of attika. A group of young noble girls every four years.
