The Hybristika and Santa Águeda.
Personatges:
Tema: Comparison of Greco-Latin religion with today's religiousness.
Competències
Competència en Comunicació Lingüística
Competència personal, social i aprendre a aprendre
Competència en consciència i expressions culturals
Matèries i cursos per Sistema Educatiu
Espanya > Cultura Clàssica > 4t ESO > Continuïtat del patrimoni cultural. Mitologia i religió
Enunciat
Telesilla of Argos was a lyrical poet of 510 BC, she created the telesillean verse; she led the Battle of Sepeia against Cleomenes I, saving the city of Argos; she claimed the equality and public participation of the women of the city of Argos, and gave origin to the Hybristika Festival and the Rite of Venus Calva ("Venus the bald one") or Armed Aphrodite and The Hyacinthias.
- In groups of 6 (3 boys and 3 girls), do research on the Fiestas de Interés Turístico Nacional de Santa Águeda in Zamarramala and bring to the classroom a comparative dramatization between the Hybristika and the Fiestas de Santa Águeda.
Observacions i context
Lyrical poetess, creator of the Telesillean meter and fighting leader against Cleomenes I in the Battle of Sepeia; she claimed equality and female public participation in the city of Argos.
The figure and work of Telesilla links with the female members of the lyrical movement in Continental Greece: Myrtis, Praxilla of Sicyon, Corinna of Tanagra, Erinna of Telos, Anyte, Sappho of Lesbos, Moero and Nossis.
Descripció
To learn about the origin of the Hybristika festival, commemorating Telesilla's leadership in the Battle of Sepeia, in which women dress as men and men as women for a day, and to relate them to the Fiestas of Santa Águeda, in which, for a day, the command of the Castilian cities is in the hands of women, and men take over the domestic sphere.