Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

Sue Blundell is a part time lecturer in Classical Civilisation at Birkbeck College, University of London and Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She is the author of Women in Ancient Greece (British Museum Press, 1995)Margaret Williamson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey. She is the author of Sappho's Immortal Daughters (Harvard University Press, 1995).

• 1. Introduction,, Deities and their Worshippers,, 2. The Gamos of Hera: Myth and Ritual, Isabelle Clark,, 3. Domesticating Artemis, Susan Cole,, Objects of Worship,, 4. Marriage and the Maiden: Narratives on the Parthenon, Sue Blundell,, 5. Born Old or Never Young? Femininity, Childhood and the Goddesses of Ancient Greece, Lesley Beaumont,, 6. The Nature of Heroines, Emily Kearns, Ritual and Gender,, 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual, Karen Stears,, 8. In the Mirror of Dionysus, Richard Seaford,, Sources and Interpreters,, 9. Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics and Mysteries, Nick Lowe

'The book is an interesting contribution to gender studies in the area of religious research. The reader ... will find well represented papers understandable also for non-specialists.' - Numen