The cult of divine birth in ancient Greece
By: Marguerite Rigoglioso.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Women priests -- Greece; Virgin birth (Mythology); Goddesses, Greek; Women and religion -- Greece; Greece -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A taxonomy of divine birth priestesshoods; title: Divinity, birth, and virginity : the Greek worldview; title: Athena's divine birth priestesshood; title: Artemis's divine birth priestesshood; title: Hera's divine birth priestesshood; title: The divine birth priestesshood at Dodona; title: The divine birth priestesshood at Delphi; title: Is virgin birth possible and other outrageous questions.