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Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece / Joan Breton Connelly.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connelly, Joan Breton, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women priests.
- Women and religion.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Religion.
- Women and religion--Greece.
- Women priests--Greece.
- Greece--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Greece--History--146 B.C.-323 A.D.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 413 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction : time, space, source material, and methods
- Paths to priesthood : preparation, requirements, and acquisition
- Priesthoods of prominence : Athena Polias at Athens, Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, Hera at Argos, and Apollo at Delphi
- Dressing the part : costume, attribute, and mimesis
- The priestess in the sanctuary : implements, portraits, and patronage
- The priestess in action : procession, sacrifice, and benefaction
- Priestly privilege : perquisites, honors, and authority
- Death of the priestess : grave monuments, epitaphs, and public burial
- The end of the line : the coming of Christianity
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-381) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0691127468
- 9780691127460
- OCLC:
- 67728101
- Online:
- Publisher description
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