Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
ISBN-10
0691127468
ISBN-13
9780691127460
Category
Greece
Pages
415
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Joan Breton Connelly

Description

Archaeologist Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oraclea

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