Homeric Hymns

The Archaic Age

(800-500 BCE). Greek recovery. Technology: Iron, widespread bronze, Pitch on ships, and the alphabet. Trade. Population boom.

Polis

city-state. Key to identity

Civic Religion

city state religious worship. (Orthodoxy (right belief) vs Orthopraxy (right conduct). 

Panhellenic Religion

- all the greeks are involved ex Oracle at Delphi. Festivals.

The Oracle at Delph

 site of apollo’s prophecies. Open to all Greeks

Pythia:

the main Priestess

Festivals

Panhellenic religious gatherings for all Greeks. Sacred truce

Olympics -

Most famous. Festival competition. One of the biggest Greek festivals once every 4 years in honor of Zeus. Worship, Athletics, Art, Literature

Rhapsodes

Bards play music/sing. Perform poetry at festivals (homer, homer hymns and other poems.)

Mystery Cult

Elusynian mysteries. Coming as an individual

The Homeric Hymns

perform at festivals. Mostly th-6th centuries BCE. Most very short

Hymn

Poems praising a god

Lyre

equal to zither. Played to accompany poetry. Invented by hermes but attribute of Apollo

Metapoetics

Poetry about poetry: example achilles sings poetry. Hermes sings his own hymn

Celsus

King of Eleusis

Metaneria

wife of Celsus

Demophon

young son. Nursed by Demeter. Put into fire by her to make immortal. 

Iambe

slave. jokes with Demeter

The Eleusinian Mysteries

Mystery cult. Secret rituals. Worship as individuals. No murderers or barbarians. Benefits: preferred treatment in underworld. Clement of Alexandria. Sacred box