The cult of divine birth in ancient Greece [electronic resource] / Marguerite Rigoglioso.

Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts - stories of mortal women's couplings with gods, rituals like the basilinna's "marriage" to Dionysus, beliefs in the impregnating power of snakes and deities, and more. In this provocative study, Marguerite Rigoglioso suggest...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Rigoglioso, Marguerite
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Greece > Religion. Women priests > Greece. Virgin birth (Mythology) Goddesses, Greek. Women and religion > Greece. Religion. Women and religion. Women priests. Greece. History.