TY - BOOK ID - 2674220 TI - The sacred and the feminine in ancient Greece AU - Blundell, Sue AU - Williamson, Margaret PY - 1998 SN - 0415126630 0415126622 9780415126632 9780415126625 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Women and religion KW - History KW - Greece KW - Religion KW - -Religion and women KW - Women in religion KW - Sexism in religion KW - Religion. KW - History. KW - -History KW - Sociology of culture KW - Comparative religion KW - Religious studies KW - Antiquity KW - Religion and women KW - Religious life and customs KW - Civilization KW - Women and religion - Greece - History KW - Greece - Religion KW - Gods KW - Heroes KW - Mythology KW - Rituals KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2674220 AB - In Classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual. The public symbolism of religion included powerful figures like Hera, Artemis and Athene; female worshippers often breached the boundary between public and private space; and both men and women negotiated gendered identities through their performance of ritual. This volume is a lively and colorful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women's importance in the Greek 'polis', showing how ideologies about female roles and behavior were both endorsed and challenged in the realm of the sacred. ER -