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GCSE Classics · key term
Food, objects or other gifts presented to gods or the dead as part of a religious ritual.
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Paper 1
Revise: The Genesia: Greek Festivals for the DeadFestivals for the dead gave this continuing duty a regular place in religious life: remembrance involved actions and offerings, not simply thinking about someone who had died.
Support explanations of significance with a specific practice: decorating graves showed continued remembrance; offerings honoured the ancestors.
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