Portrait of a Priestess
Subtitle: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780691127460
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; Religious life & practice; Social history; Social Science; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Antiquities & Archaeology; History; Archaeology and Ancient History; Art and Architecture; Classics; Gender Studies; History / Ancient / Greece; Religion; Europe - Greece; Women's Studies - General; 146 B.C.-323 A.D; Greece; Women and religion; Women priests
First sentence: At the end of the second century B.C., Athenian worshippers set out in procession, marching from Athens to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi to celebrate the Pythais festival.