Friday, February 26, 2010

Classical Mythology 209 Greek women


1- Gynaikeion
The separation between the two sexes while worshipping or attending other religious services.


2- Parthenos
The title of a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena made by Phidias and housed in the Parthenon in Athens.


3- Sophrosyne
Is a Greek philosophical term etymologically meaning moral sanity and from there self control or moderation guided by true self knowledge.


4- Kore
Was the Queen of the Underworld. Aka Persephone


5- Nymphe
A nymph in Greek mythology is a female spirit typically associated with a particular location or landform.

6- Oikos
Is the ancient Greek equivalent of a household, house, or family.


7- Miasma
In Greek mythology, a miasma is a contagious power that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe.

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