Vocab for women in the ancient world

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Male head of household (greece)

Kyrios

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Wife of male head of household ( greece )

Kyria

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3

Low class sex worker ( Greece)

Pornai

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4

Foreign people ( Greece )

Metics

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5

high class sex worker ( Greece )

hetairai

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6

A wine drinking party ( Greece )

Symposium

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A mythological battle between the amazons and the trojans

( Greece )

Amazonomachy

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8

Official meeting place of the greek democratic assembly

Pnyx

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The regular opportunity for all male citizens of Athens to speak their minds and exercise their votes regarding the government of their city ( Greece )

The assembly

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10

Female priest ( Greece )

heireia

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11

A prophet or seer ( Greece )

mantis

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A restricted area of a temple where the pythia sat ( Greece )

Adyton

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13

Contest of manliness and strength between young Athenian men

Euandrion

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14

All night feast in the panathenaia ( Greece )

Pannychis

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The people who set up the loom to weave the peplos ( Greece )

Arrephoria

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weavers of a peplos involved in the panethania procession

Ergastinai

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The 2 girls who washed the statue of athena

Loutrides

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A body length garment worn by women ( Greece )

Peplos

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women who carried baskets in the panathenaia ( Greece )

Kanephoroi

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Women who carried stools in the great panathenaia ( Greece )

diphrophoroi

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21

the first day of the thesmophoria ( Greece )

Anodos

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Second day of the thesmophoria ( Greece )

Nesteia

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Third day of the thesmophoria ( Greece )

Kalligeneia

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24

A staff carried by dionysus

Thyrsus

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25

ritual of cutting apart and dismembering a sacrifice to be offered to dionysus ( Greece )

Sparagmos

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female followers of dionysus ( Greece )

maenads

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consuming bulls blood to symbolise consuming dionysus to be possesed by him ( Greece )

omophagia

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a feast prepared by women after a burial ( Greece )

perideipnon

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a room were women could entertain female guests ( Greece )

Gynaikon

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30

The area of the house reserved for men ( Greece )

Andron

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31

Gravestone ( Greece )

Stele

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32

the rigorous education and training program mandated for all male Spartan citizens

Agoge

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33

Slaves of sparta

Helots

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A farm in sparta

Kleros

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35

Why god permits evil ? ( Greece )

Theodicy

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The day before the wedding ceremony ( Greece )

Proaulia

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The wedding day ( Greece )

Gamos

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The day after the wedding ceremony ( Greece )

Epaulia

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39

Middle class in sparta but werent citizens

Perioikoi

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40

Male head of house ( Rome )

Paterfamilias

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41

married woman ( Rome )

Matrona

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Anyone who sold their body for money ( Rome )

Infamis

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Sex worker ( Rome )

meretrix

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44

A brothel ( Rome )

Lupanar/luparium

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45

A pimp ( Rome )

Leno/a

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46

the governing and advisory assembly of the aristocracy in the ancient Roman Republic

Senate

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The leader of rome

Consul

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Lower class ( Rome )

Plebeian

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Upperclass ( Rome )

Patrician

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Traditional garment worn by women( Rome )

Stola

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A priest devoted to one deity ( Rome )

Flamen

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52

Head priest ( Rome )

Pontifex maximus

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A flour and salt cake made by the vestal virgins for sacrafices ( Rome )

Mola salsa

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54

Goddess of modesty ( Rome )

Pudicitia

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A woman who has only been married once ( Rome )

Univira / pronuba

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56

The 15 priests that looked after the sibylline books ( Rome )

Quindecimviri

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57

Female head of house ( Rome )

Materfamilias

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58

The power that the male head of house could exercise over his family ( Rome )

Patria Potestas

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A female slave ( Rome )

Vilica

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A kingdom controlled by rome but left to govern itself ( Rome )

Client kingdom

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Monarch in charge of a client kingdom ( Rome )

Client monarch

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A good luck charm given to children after birth ( Rome )

Bulla

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A teacher ( Rome )

Litterator

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The promising of a girl to a groom by her father ( Rome )

Sponsalia

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A marriage where the husband is in control of the wife ( Rome )

Cum manu

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A marriage where the wife is under the control of her father ( Rome )

sine manu

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Most common type of marriage where the husband gives a penny in exchange for ownership of the bride ( Rome )

Coempio

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An elaborate marriage with the flamen dialis and pontifex maximus present where the bride it now the husbands property ( Rome )

Confarreatio

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A type of marriage that doesnā€™t require a wedding ( Rome )

Usus

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House hold god ( Rome )

Lares

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