Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion by Matthew Dillon PDF

By Matthew Dillon

ISBN-10: 0415202728

ISBN-13: 9780415202725

ISBN-10: 0415319161

ISBN-13: 9780415319164

It has frequently been concept that participation in fertility rituals used to be women's most crucial spiritual task in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging examine makes it transparent that ladies engaged in different different rites and cults, and that their function in Greek faith was once truly extra vital than that of fellows. ladies invoked the gods' assist in changing into pregnant, honored the god of wine, worshipped new and unique deities, used magic for either erotic and pain-relieving reasons, and much extra along with.
Clear and entire, this quantity demanding situations many stereotypes of Greek ladies and gives unforeseen insights into their event of faith. With greater than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from modern texts, this is often a vital source for the examine of ladies and faith in classical Greece.

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