Hyperoon
Hyperoon (plural: Hyperoa , ancient Greek ὑπερῷον ) refers to the upper floor of a Greek house in antiquity. The women's area ( gyneconitis ) was mostly located here.
The Hyperoon as a woman's chamber already appears in Homer's Odyssey as the predominant abode of Penelope and her servants during the ten-year absence of her husband.
The term appears several times in the Acts of the Apostles as the meeting place of the early church , namely in Acts 1,13 EU , 20,8 EU and in 9,37,39 EU as the place of the tabita , which is awakened by Peter . The Cenacle , however, such as in Mk 14,15 EU and Lk 22,12 EU , not as Hyperoon but as Anagaion called ( "upper room").
In the cella of the Greek temple , the side galleries were called Hyperoa , correspondingly in the basilica the galleries above the side aisles, which were also assigned to women in the Orthodox Church . The same applies to similar structures in the synagogue .