The cult of divine birth in ancient Greece

Introduction -- A taxonomy of divine birth priestesshoods -- Divinity, birth, and virginity : the Greek worldview -- Athena's divine birth priestesshood -- Artemis's divine birth priestesshood -- Hera's divine birth priestesshood -- The divine birth priestesshood at Dodona -- The divi...

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Main Author: Rigoglioso, Marguerite (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Nex York, NY [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2009
In:Year: 2009
Edition:1. publ.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greece (Antiquity) / Religion / Priestess / Birth / Divinity
Further subjects:B Women and religion (Greece)
B Women priests (Greece)
B Virgin birth (Mythology)
B Goddesses, Greek
B Greece Religion
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Summary:Introduction -- A taxonomy of divine birth priestesshoods -- Divinity, birth, and virginity : the Greek worldview -- Athena's divine birth priestesshood -- Artemis's divine birth priestesshood -- Hera's divine birth priestesshood -- The divine birth priestesshood at Dodona -- The divine birth priestesshood at Delphi -- Is virgin birth possible and other outrageous questions
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. [247] - 261
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1. published in hardcover in 2009. - 1. Palgrave Macmillan paperback ed. in 2011. - Transferred to digital printing in 2011
ISBN:0230111327