Greek Virginity

by Giulia Sissa

For centuries, scholars have mused over the meaning of the bizarre physical posture of the virgin priestess at Delphi. She delivered Apollo's oracles while seated on a raised tripod as vapors rose from the earth to her body. The image of prophecies taking shape inside a virginal body provides the starting point for this revealing exploration of the concept of the female body in Greece before the impact of Christianity. In an analysis drawing upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674363205
• ISBN13: 9780674363205
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"