Individuals offered Temples, most famously Themistocles, after his victory over the Persians
Ships
Temples - Theseus after the mintaur
7. Libation - truce
When 2 people made a truce with one another, they poured libations. As a result, the Grk word for 'truce' = spondai
Signify a truce
8. Sponde
Poured to the Olympian Gods. Offering of wine/water/honey/milk. Liquid poured carefully and slowly. Help of the Gods then requested.
Offered to chtronic beings - liquid tipped into the earth in one go.
9. VO - e.g. of a vow made
If i achieve XY/recover from an illness/become pregnant, I will offer a shrine/statue/10th of my income to the gods (one specific god)
A vow by an individual or a community to one or more Gods and was not prescribed by a ritual (as for e.g. during a festival where certain sacrifices were regularly made in a particular manner)
10. E.g. of libation in the Iliad
Bob in book 8 because why not
Aeneas in book 2 explain
Achilles pours a spondê in the Iliad before praying (unsuccessfully) for Patroclus’ safe return from the battlefield.
Odyseeus Bk 10 - gives Dolon's weapons to Athena
11. VO - e.g. - prize winners
Chariot
Prize winners/successful warriors offered their prizes/weapons that helped achieve their victory
A vow by an individual or a community to one or more Gods and was not prescribed by a ritual (as for e.g. during a festival where certain sacrifices were regularly made in a particular manner)
12. Grk sanctuaries were crowded with what
Everything a worshipper could poss dedicate to a deity, ranging from parasols to jewellery, statues, inscriptions, in fact, any obect dear to a worshipper
Libations
VO
13. Offering by a city
Treasuries - Olympia/Delphi
Treasuries - Delphi/Parthenon
14. VO was either made as thanks after a deity had showed them goodwill or helpful intervention. E.g. a lucky escape from pirates at sea.
True
False
15. Choe
Offered to chtronic beings - liquid tipped into the earth in one go.
Poured to the Olympian Gods. Offering of wine/water/honey/milk. Liquid poured carefully and slowly. Help of the Gods then requested.
16. What was there bi/annual clearances of?
Old books
Offering to the Gods
Clearances of sancturies. Objects either stored in seperate treasuires or buried ritually, depending on value or size.
Wine
17. E.g. of an offering
Girls - toys/dolls to Artemis before her marriage
Kids - first walking stick
First toenail
Craftsmen - weapons at retirement
18. What could a VO be
HP
Tom
A statue or a vase
A bathutub
19. E.g. of libations - Argonauts
Argonauts pour libations for honey/wine to Earth (Gaia), the Gods of the land and the souls and dead heroes, at their arrival in Colchis
Pour it when Jason was an idoit and left Medea
20. Did priests have to go to schl to become a priest?
