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Worshiping women : ritual and reality in classical Athens
- Title
- Worshiping women : ritual and reality in classical Athens / edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas and Alan Shapiro.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, c2008.
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- Description
- 367 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.
- Subjects
- Art, Greek > Greece > Athens > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
- Athens (Greece) > Religious life and customs > Exhibitions
- Art, Classical > Greece > Athens > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
- Goddesses, Greek > Exhibitions
- Women > Greece > Athens > Exhibitions
- Onassis Cultural Center Exhibitions
- Cults > Greece > Athens > Exhibitions
- Women > Mythology > Exhibitions
- Women > Greece > History > Exhibitions
- Women in art > Exhibitions
- Women priests > Greece > Exhibitions
- Women heroes > Cult > Greece > Exhibitions
- Women and religion > Greece > Athens > Exhibitions
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Onassis Cultural Center, New York, Dec. 10, 2008-May 9, 2009.
- "Hellenic Ministry of Culture."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-366).
- Contents
- Preface / Michalis Liapis -- Preface / Anthony S. Papadimitriou -- Introduction / Nikolaos Kaltsas, Alan Shapiro -- Ancient Greek women and the gods / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- Goddesses and heroines. Athena : women in the cult of Athena / Olga Palagia ; Artemis : The worship of Artemis in Attica : cult places, rites, iconography / Evgenia Vikela ; Aphrodite : the worship of Aphrodite in Athens and Attica / Angelos Delivorrias ; Demeter : women of Athens in the worship of Demeter : iconographic evidence from Archaic and Classical times / Michalis Tiverios ; Heroines : cults of heroines in ancient Athens / Alan Shapiro -- Women and ritual. Priestesses, women in cult : in divine affairs, the greatest part : women and priesthoods in Classical Athens / Joan Breton Connelly ; Festivals : Adonia to Thesmophoria : women and Athenian festivals / Jenifer Neils ; The participation of women in the worship and festivals of Dionysos / Stella Chryssoulaki -- Women and the cycle of life. Birth, childhood, and marriage : women's ritual roles in the cycle of life / Victoria Sabetai ; Death : women in Athenian ritual and funerary art / John H. Oakley.
- Call Number
- JFG 13-15
- ISBN
- 9780977659845
- 0977659844
- OCLC
- 299755582
- Title
- Worshiping women : ritual and reality in classical Athens / edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas and Alan Shapiro.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-366).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Kaltsas, Nikos E.Shapiro, H. A. (Harvey Alan), 1949-Onassis Cultural Center.Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)Greece. Hypourgeio Politismou.Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)
- Other Form:
- Online version: Worshiping women. New York : Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, c2008 (OCoLC)642429093
- Research Call Number
- JFG 13-15