@article{323396,
      recid = {323396},
      author = {Connelly, Joan Breton,},
      title = {Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient  Greece /},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton :},
      pages = {xv, 415 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Archaeologist Connelly gives us the first comprehensive  cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world.  Connelly presents the fullest picture yet of how  priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and  sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of  Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the  way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that  priestesses played far more significant public roles in  ancient Greece than previously acknowledged. Connelly  examines archaeological evidence in the broader context of  literary sources, inscriptions, sculpture, and vase  painting. The picture that emerges reveals that women in  religious office were not as secluded and marginalized as  we have thought--that religious office was one arena in  ancient Greece where women enjoyed privileges and authority  comparable to that of men. Connelly concludes by examining  women's roles in early Christianity, taking on the larger  issue of the exclusion of women from the Christian  priesthood.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/323396},
}