CLA 1101 Study Guide - Stoning, Himation, Strigil

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Lecture 19: life: private & intellectual: place for the chorus orchestra, producer of a play choregos, first actor thespis, writer of tragedies about women euripides, where the audience sat - theatron. Phi is for pheidias a famous sculptor. Women were expected to produce heirs, supervise slaves, supervise food prep, making of clothing, stay at home. Women & religious festivals: eleusinian mysteries (demeter) for all greeks. Male + female: panathenaia (athena) - appeared in panathenaic procession carrying things like hydras. Peplos made by women: thesmophoria (demeter) exclusively female festival. Fasted days, 3rd day they dig up terracotta models of penises, piglets. symbols of fertility. Took place in fall: aristophanes made thesmophoria subject of one of his comedies. Where women who participated in thesmophoria hold a sex strike to get men to stop waging war: brauronia (artemis) about rite of passage. Exposure - if sickly, they would be left out to die. Amphidromia if child was a boy, father would be proud.