Ways that women were involved in religion
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- Ways that Roman women were involved in religion
- Cult of Ceres
- Creativity depended on Ceres
- Led by men
- Only available to just a few women
- Turned to goddess for fertility
- Bona Dea
- Bit like the Thesmo. in Athens
- Worship Bona Dea
- Fertility Goddess
- Secret rituals
- No involvement of men
- Vestal Virgins
- Only for a small no. of girls
- Power to rescue criminals from execution
- Had to remain chaste
- Influential to Rome
- Look after the hearth
- Priestesses
- Married to certain gods
- Majority were men
- Not a lot of women
- Held duties to the Senate
- Funerals
- Pay tributes to Gods
- Make sure the funeral was going fine
- Eat with the dead
- Men organised it this time
- Household
- Remember the ancestors
- Keep away bad spirits
- Worship the household gods
- Men done most of these and women done not as much as the Greek women
- Keep the hearth alight
- Cult of Ceres
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