Until Joan Breton Connelly's wonderful volume, Portrait of a Priestess, was published the prominent role of Greek . Connelly's brave effort is a long time in the making and deserves to be taken seriously

Her compelling book challenges our assumptions about the role of priestesses, and more generally the role of women, in a far-off world that retains the fascination of countless readers. Connelly's brave effort is a long time in the making and deserves to be taken seriously. For one thing, the book is substantial in length and assembles a rich body of documentation, much of it epigraphical and unfamiliar to many archaeologists and art historians.

A scholar finds that in ancient Greece, religion meant power for women. These are just some of the influential women visible through the cracks of conventional history in Joan Breton Connelly’s eye-opening Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Her portrait is not in fact that of an individual priestess, but of a formidable class of women scattered over the Greek world and across a thousand years of history, down to the day in . 393 when the Christian emperor Theodosius banned the polytheistic cults.

Portrait of a Priestess book. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world

Portrait of a Priestess book. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them-the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias-to basket bearers and In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world.

Joan Breton Connelly is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University In her Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, Connelly challenges long held beliefs concerning the "invisibility" of women in ancient.

Joan Breton Connelly is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. She is Director of the Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School in Cyprus. Connelly was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. In her Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, Connelly challenges long held beliefs concerning the "invisibility" of women in ancient Greece and brings together far-flung archaeological evidence for women's leadership roles in the religious life of the city. Portrait of a Priestess was named as one of the 100 Notable.

In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them-the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias-to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played far more significant public roles in ancient Greece than previously acknowledged. Joan Breton Connelly.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-381) and indexes. 365-381) and indexes

By Joan Breton Connelly. As scholars of women in antiquity have long recognized, religious rituals provided women with a critical public role in ancient Greece, challenging the popular notion that proper women in Greek society were to be neither seen nor heard.

By Joan Breton Connelly. Connelly’s book provides significant new evidence for the importance of women’s leadership in Greek cult. Her work follows the approach of Lewis’ The Athenian Woman (London and New York 2002) in emphasizing the value of the visual record to supplement and correct ideas regarding women in antiquity derived primarily from literary and epigraphic sources.

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Joan Breton Connelly is a classical archaeologist who has excavated throughout Greece, Kuwait, and Cyprus where, since 1990, she . Her Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, was also named a Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times.

She majored in Classics at Princeton University and received her PhD in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College where she later served as Assistant Dean and as a member of the Board of Trustees. She is an honorary citizen of Peyia Municipality, Cyprus.

Joan Breton Connelly. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Portrait of a Priestess is an impressively long book. It is beautifully produced, including 27 color plates before the introduction, and a generous number of black and white illustrations spaced throughout the text

Joan Breton Connelly. Ancient religion is an attractive, if difficult subject. It is beautifully produced, including 27 color plates before the introduction, and a generous number of black and white illustrations spaced throughout the text. It is also affordable and easy to use, but the book anticipates a specialist, scholarly readership. Following the lengthy introductory chapter are seven more dealing with evidence for Greek and Roman priestesses directly.