Check out the *Bad Archaeology* site. http://www.badarchaeology.net/ Explore the diversity of archaeological misconceptions, mistakes and distortions. We are...
CALL FOR PAPERS Images of Women and Reconstruction of Gender in Classical, Premodern and Early Modern Literary and Historical Imagination ?Session Language...
Katariina Mustakallio
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Department of Classics MARGO TYTUS VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to ...
Getzel Cohen
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Interesting book review on Joan Breton Connelly's "Portrait of a Priestess" - she neglected priestesses of Aphrodite, apparently. ... How to be a modern...
She didn't neglect priestesses of Aphrodite. Davidson is annoyed that she left out prostitutes, not quite noticing that they are not priestesses, thus not the...
Hi Stephanie, (I finally got your book, hoorah!) ... I have Connelly's book, but have not read it yet, only people's reviews. Perhaps you should write a...
Yes, someone should answer that snarky, jejune review. Absolutely puerile. S h e i l a ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Greetings, All! A point-for-point rebuttal of Davidson would be a good thing, but I don't know if the "reply" section of the TLS is really the right place for...
Hello! I certainly disagree with James Davidson's view that "Ancient Greek women lived lives that would be far more recognizable to the women of Iran or...
Actually, sex and the sacred mixed very little in ancient Greece. Yes, there was a goddess of sex. And we do know that the Athenian Archon Baselinna was...
Some of us may already be familiar with the following accounts of Strabo, where there seems to be a suggestion of temple prostitution in Greece and Magna...
The technical term is "hierodule", which roughly translates into "sacred" (hieros) "slave" (doulos). However, the meaning of the term is not well expressed by...
I am surprised that Jones' translation, which is the Loeb translation, would appear without the Greek. Strabo 8.6.20 uses hierodoulos (temple slave) and ...
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Speaking of books, book reviews etc. A book I am actually reading right now (amongst writing my demanding essays etc) is Bettany Hughes' book 'Helen of Troy:...
CALL FOR PAPERS Aphrodite revealed: A goddess disclosed University of Reading, Department of Classics 8-9 May, 2008 The Greek goddess of love is ambiguous,...
... Actually, there are NO contemporary attestations of sacred prostitution. The closest one might come is Lucian's _De Dea Syria_ 6 (a Syrian writing about...
Stephanie, Thank you for your remarks. I would agree with you that sex and the sacred mixed very little in ancient Greece, if by sex one means sexual ...
The interesting thing about these fertility rituals, such as the Thesmophoria, is that they were chaste events. Men were not permitted to attend or even to...
I am writing a book on women and monotheistic religion. Presently, I am working on the Islam section and need some scholarly references for pagan religion in...
Robert Hoyland's _Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam_ has a chapter on religion and good endnotes for further bibliography...
Dear Donna Wallace, I think the following title is going to be a help for you. H.A.R Gibb, "Pre-Islamic Monotheism in Aarabia" Harvard Theological Review 55/4...
Donna, A couple of brief but interesting primary sources: 1. Epiphanios, a Christian heresiologist, in his Medicine Box (78.23) talks about Arabian Christian...
Stephanie, Thank you for your comments. Adonis and the Adonia festival had several connections with vegetation, hence their association with fertility. I would...
Good Morning! ... Yes, but the significant factor is that the herbs die quickly. At best, it is an anti-fertility festival. ... Here is a quick bibliography...
Please forgive my interruption of this debate with a question. I am not an academic – at best I can be described as a hobbyist with a primary interest in...
Hello! Well, for one thing, I imagine it was a lot of fun, especially to judge from some of the descriptions from the comic authors and Theokritos! It was a...
Stephanie Budin wrote > ...remember that the Adonia started off as a ... Mourning Adonis seems to have continued much later than that. In the Hellenistic age,...
Yes, the mournful quality of the Adonis rites seem to have remained the norm in the east, as opposed to the more festive aspects in the west. The latest...
