CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Athena, 8 Women, Hieros Gamos
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Sometimes dates are attributed to priestesses (their year of reign) Athena: priest drawn from the eteoboutadai genos (family grouping) To get on the list you had to have specifications like wealth or good family: election/appointment (had to pay a fee in order to become a priest(ess, purchase (particularly in asia minor. The carrying of secrets: 2 girls form athenian families aged 7-11 live on acropolis for a year and hang out with priestess of athena polias. One of their main tasks was to weave new robe for athena. Parthenon: the girls were given a basket of something and told to carry it through an underground corridor to the sanctuary of eros and aphrodite. They would leave the basket there and take another thing back. The had no idea what they were carrying. They looked inside and saw the baby erichtonius born from the ground along with snakes. The bear was killed, artemis unhappy, she caused plague.
