Portrait of a Priestess : : Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece /

Portrait of a Priestess : : Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece / / Joan Breton Connelly.

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In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic O...

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Connelly, Joan Breton,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 27 color illus. 109 halftones. 3 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Time, Space, Source Material, and Methods
  • Chapter 2 Paths to Priesthood: Preparation, Requirements, and Acquisition
  • Chapter 3 Priesthoods of Prominence: Athena Polias at Athens, Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, Hera at Argos, and Apollo at Delphi
  • Chapter 4 Dressing the Part: Costume, Attribute, and Mimesis
  • Chapter 5 The Priestess in the Sanctuary: Implements, Portraits, and Patronage
  • Chapter 6 The Priestess in Action: Procession, Sacrifice, and Benefaction
  • Chapter 7 Priestly Privilege: Perquisites, Honors, and Authority
  • Chapter 8 Death of the Priestess: Grave Monuments, Epitaphs, and Public Burial
  • Chapter 9 The End of the Line: The Coming of Christianitys
  • Chapter 10 Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Monuments
  • Index of Inscriptions
  • Index of Priestesses
  • General Index
  • Glossary
  • Maps
  • Plates

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