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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Preface 11 Introduction 12 Part I: Public Religious Roles for Girls and Women 18 1. Women as Dedicators 20 2. The Public Religious Roles of Girls and Adolescent Women in Athens 48 3. Women Priests 84 Part II: Segregated and Ecstatic Religious Rites 118 4. Women-Only Festivals 120 5. Women at the Margins of Greek Religion 150 6. Prostitutes, Foreign Women and the Gods 194 Part III: Sacrificial and Domestic Rituals 220 7. From Adolescent Girl to Woman, Wife and Mother 222 8. Women, Sacrifice and Impurity 247 9. Women and the Corpse: Mourning Rituals 279 Epilogue 304 Notes 312 Glossary 380 Abbreviations 383 Bibliography 391 Index 414
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- Author
- Matthew Dillon
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Ancient History, Humanities
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