The Lost Priestesses of Rhodes? Female Religious Offices and Social Standing in Hellenistic Rhodes
This article questions the commonly assumed prevalence of women in Greek Hellenistic priesthoods, often considered to put them on equal footing with men in this sphere, through the particular case study of Rhodes, a state whose religious organisation appears entirely dominated by male priests. It su...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/kernos, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Kernos
2018
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | This article questions the commonly assumed prevalence of women in Greek Hellenistic priesthoods, often considered to put them on equal footing with men in this sphere, through the particular case study of Rhodes, a state whose religious organisation appears entirely dominated by male priests. It suggests that it is time to revise some of the general assumptions about women and Greek religion by placing greater emphasis on regional variations. Consequently, it argues that local organisation and the epigraphic habit likely played a role, and examines in detail the evidence that does survive for Rhodian priestesses. Do these appear in particularly “feminine” cultic contexts? Can we find any evidence for a “gender-rule” of priesthoods? Finally, this article considers the limited public representation of women in Hellenistic Rhodian society, and what light this casts on our understanding of priesthoods. |
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