The fine line of feminine priesthood
J. Connelly’s Portrait of a Priestess, “the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world” (jacket-copy), is a long awaited book on a much neglected topic. Surprisingly, the character and idiosyncrasies of Greek priesthoods, male and female, have not been explored in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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[2008]
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Kernos
Year: 2008, Volume: 21, Pages: 312-318 |
| Review of: | Portrait of a priestess (Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, 2007) (Dignas, Beate)
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| Summary: | J. Connelly’s Portrait of a Priestess, “the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world” (jacket-copy), is a long awaited book on a much neglected topic. Surprisingly, the character and idiosyncrasies of Greek priesthoods, male and female, have not been explored in any general study that would make use of both the textual and visual evidence at hand. As is the case so often, classical scholars working in their specific fields do not look left and right: thos... |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kernos
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/kernos.1681 |