Women Visual Sources

What are the women on this terracota plaque taking part in?

• Dionysian Mysteries

• cheering men during the games at Great Panathenaia

• ritual lamentation for a dead relative (prothesis)

• dancing to cheer up Demeter for thesmophoria

This vase shows a woman taking part in the Dionysian mysteries. What are these worshippers called?

Where is this girl from?

• Athens

• Rome

• Sparta

• land of the Amazons

What kind of ceremony is taking place here?

• an Athenian divorce

• Roman confarreatio wedding

• Roman coemptio wedding

• Athenian marriage

Which woman of legend is represented here?

• Tarpeia

• Lucretia

• Pandora

• Sabine woman

Which Greek woman of legend is shown in this relief?

Why was this set up?

• to show women how to behave

• men liked to show their wives on reliefs

• commemorate the life of the woman

• to show wealth of the kyrios

who would work here?

• lupanar

• hetaira

• porne

• meretrix

Which cult is represented here?

What is the status of this woman?

• hetaira

• porne

• meretrix

• kyria