CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cornucopia, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Thesmophoria
17 Sep 2016
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Hera, hestia, demeter; gods and the feminine ideal. Women in ancient greece: there isn"t" much evidence speculated as secluded, but now viewed in the different manner, they had education (maybe not to the extent of men. , had role in religious participation(roles only for female authority) c. i. Had personal communication with gods that wasn"t through men: aspect of femininity: fertility, wife, mother, center of home, sexual. Hera (roman: juno: epithets: daughter of cronus, queen, ox-eyed, white-armed, argive a. i. Women were given compliments on arm or ankle a. ii. Her big cult-site was argos: animals: peacock, cow, cuckoo; tree: pomegranate, symbols: throne, crown, scepter, sphere: marriage(sanctity of marriage), motherhood, childbirth(shares this role with her daughter eileithyia) Hestia (roman: vesta) (=hearth: epithets: daughter of cronus, first and last, boulaia (of the council), Greeks thought of community as an extended family, so hestia, who was the heart of family(hearth) would be revered so. a. ii.
