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Title: | 'Chrysis the Hiereia having placed a lighted torch near the garlands then fell asleep' (Thucydides iv.133.2): Priestesses serving the gods and goddesses in Classical Greece | Contributor(s): | Dillon, Matthew P (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19707 | Abstract: | While there were many priesthoods and priestesshoods in ancient Greek cities such as Athens, there was in no sense a collective organisation of these. Most priestesshoods in ancient Greece (the sources, as usual, focus on Athens) had originated in pre-democratic days as aristocratic dominances of various cults. There was no official attempt to ensure that all the gods were worshipped, as there was no need to do so, because the gods and goddesses since the misty past had had their priests and priestesses. These cult personnel were responsible for the correct and traditional worship of deities. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World, p. 683-702 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | London, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781317219903 9781315621425 9781317219897 9781317219910 9781138808362 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History 169901 Gender Specific Studies 220407 Studies in Religious Traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430305 Classical Greek and roman history 500407 Studies in religious traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology 950504 Understanding Europe's Past 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130704 Understanding Europe’s past 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/211395121 | Series Name: | Rewriting Antiquity | Editor: | Editor(s): Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa |
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