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Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece ~ Until Joan Breton Connellys wonderful volume Portrait of a Priestess was published the prominent role of Greek priestesses in ancient Greek society was ignored or even denied by most male commentators Her compelling book challenges our assumptions about the role of priestesses and more generally the role of women in a faroff world that retains the fascination of countless readers

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient ~ 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 themthe Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Poliasto basket bearers and handmaidens

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient ~ Joan Breton Connellys lively new book Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece presents a great deal of evidence overturning that image of sequestered Greek women and demonstrates that on the contrary Greek religion demanded female participation in many aspects of civic life

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient ~ Connelly begins with the hypothesis that through participation in cult service ancient Greek women were able to att While this may have been true in some cases Joan Breton Connelly convincingly disproves this hypothesis in the case of a notable exception the role of women in religious ritual

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient ~ Joan Breton Connellys Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece is the biggest fullest and most uptodate study of these important women from the time of Homer through to the early years of Christianity

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece ~ Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked from the most famous and sacred of themthe Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Poliasto basket bearers and In this sumptuously illustrated book Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient ~ Book Review of Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Joan Breton Connelly Reviewed by Barbette Stanley Spaeth American Journal of Archaeology Vol 112 No 1 January 2008

Project MUSE Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual ~ Books on ancient Greek women usually begin from the premise that they were marginal for most of what counted in Greek society where they led lives of quiet desperation or exercised power by manipulation and subterfuge the power of End Page 518 the oppressed Connelly’s book is a refreshing change

Portrait of a Priestess Women and Ritual in Ancient ~ Her portrait is not in fact that of an individual priestess but of a formidable class of women scattered over the Greek world and across a thousand years of history down to the day in