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 doesnāt require a wedding ( Rome )
Usus
House hold god ( Rome )
Lares