What religious role did women play in ancient athens

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Minar 3 ~ Women and Religion in Classical Athens 1. Blundell, S. "Women and Religion" in Women in Ancient Greece, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1995, 160-169. 2. MacLachlan, B. (ed) "Rituals for women" in Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook, Continuum Books, London, 2012, 123-130.

1. What was the significance of the Pythia at Delphi? What was her sexual and social status?

2. In general what religious role did women play in Ancient Athens? What do we know about the role of priestesses?

3. Who was worshipped at the Thesmophoria? What rites were conducted at this festival? How did the women behave?

4. Why was Dionysus significant for women to worship? Who were Maenads?

5. How does the playwright Euripides describe the female worshippers of Dionysus in the Bacchae? What do they end up doing?

6. Do you think these festivals or Greek religious practices in general offered women a measure of social freedom? Could they also restrict women?

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