Vocab for women in the ancient world

Male head of household (greece)

Kyrios

Wife of male head of household ( greece )

Kyria

Low class sex worker ( Greece)

Pornai

Foreign people ( Greece )

Metics

high class sex worker ( Greece )

hetairai

A wine drinking party ( Greece )

Symposium

A mythological battle between the amazons and the trojans

( Greece )

Amazonomachy

Official meeting place of the greek democratic assembly

Pnyx

**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

Female priest **( Greece )**

heireia

A prophet or seer **( Greece )**

mantis

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

Adyton

Contest of manliness and strength between young Athenian men

Euandrion

All night feast in the panathenaia **( Greece )**

Pannychis

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

Arrephoria

weavers of a peplos involved in the panethania procession

Ergastinai

The 2 girls who washed the statue of athena

Loutrides

A body length garment worn by women ( Greece )

Peplos

women who carried baskets in the panathenaia ( Greece )

Kanephoroi

Women who carried stools in the great panathenaia ( Greece )

diphrophoroi

the first day of the thesmophoria ( Greece )

Anodos

Second day of the thesmophoria ( Greece )

Nesteia

Third day of the thesmophoria ( Greece )

Kalligeneia

A staff carried by dionysus

Thyrsus

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

Sparagmos

female followers of dionysus ( Greece )

maenads

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

omophagia

a feast prepared by women after a burial ( Greece )

perideipnon

a room were women could entertain female guests ( Greece )

Gynaikon

The area of the house reserved for men ( Greece )

Andron

Gravestone ( Greece )

Stele

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

Agoge

Slaves of sparta

Helots

A farm in sparta

Kleros

Why god permits evil ? ( Greece )

Theodicy

The day before the wedding ceremony ( Greece )

Proaulia

The wedding day ( Greece )

Gamos

The day after the wedding ceremony ( Greece )

Epaulia

Middle class in sparta but werent citizens

Perioikoi

Male head of house ( Rome )

Paterfamilias

married woman ( Rome )

Matrona

Anyone who sold their body for money ( Rome )

Infamis

Sex worker ( Rome )

meretrix

A brothel ( Rome )

Lupanar/luparium

A pimp ( Rome )

Leno/a

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

Senate

The leader of rome

Consul

Lower class ( Rome )

Plebeian

Upperclass ( Rome )

Patrician

Traditional garment worn by women( Rome )

Stola

A priest devoted to one deity ( Rome )

Flamen

Head priest ( Rome )

Pontifex maximus

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

Mola salsa

Goddess of modesty ( Rome )

Pudicitia

A woman who has only been married once ( Rome )

Univira / pronuba

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

Quindecimviri

Female head of house ( Rome )

Materfamilias

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

Patria Potestas

A female slave ( Rome )

Vilica

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

Client kingdom

Monarch in charge of a client kingdom ( Rome )

Client monarch

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

Bulla

A teacher ( Rome )

Litterator

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

Sponsalia

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

Cum manu

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

sine manu

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

Coempio

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

Confarreatio

A type of marriage that doesn’t require a wedding ( Rome )

Usus

House hold god ( Rome )

Lares