Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

by Matthew Dillon

Book Overview

It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415319161
• ISBN13: 9780415319164
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"